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PROSTITUTION 
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^   i  ingly  debauching  humanity. 

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It  is  your  duty  to  yourself. 

Do  not  say 

Let -the -other -fellow -do -it. 


516  MISSION  STREET 
SAN    FRANCISCO 

CALIFORNIA 


TEN     CENTS 


Muck-rakers  and  the  fallacious-daily-press  are  curses 
to  humanity,  because,  they  draw  attention  to  the  run- 
ning sores  of  the  body  politic  without  offering  a 
remedy — they  do  not  even  diagnose  the  cause;  they 
know,  but  are  too  cowardly  to  point  out  the  cancer 
that  is  eating  the  vitals  of  the  nation. 


It  has  been  .stated  4:hat.  ten  naen.  can.  stop  every  wheel 
of  industry* in!  thifc.^jr^iit'  fisatipp^  ,m  fact,  that  threat  has 
been  used  in  forcing  the  workers  to  accept  starvation 
wages;  with  that  boomerang,  the  United  Workers 
Union  will  force  the  passage  of  the  Workers  Homes 
Bill — see  page  48. 


BEGIN  RIGHT 
DO  NOT  WASTE  TIME 

Every  honest,  kindly  person,  with  reasoning  power,  who 
will  throw  aside  all  prejudice  and  early  teachings,  so  far  as 
possible,  and  reason  back  from  effect  to  cause,  must  arrive  at 
the  fact  that  USURY  is  the  cause  of  crime,  poverty,  prosti- 
tution and  war. 

A  community  would  be  considered  crazy  if  some  were 
energetically  advocating  filtration,  others  condensation, 
others  chemical  treatment  of  the  water  on  which  their  health 
and  lives  depended,  instead  of  going  to  the  source  of  the 
water  supply  and  removing  the  dead  and  putrid  jackass  that 
was  poisoning-  them. 

Equally  crazy  are  those  who  rely  on  banking-regulating, 
tariff  reform,  trust-busting,  purification-of-elections,  single- 
tax,  government-ownership,  prohibition,  graft-killing,  uniform 
divorce-laws,  white-slave-laws,  world-peace,  paliatives-for- 
disemployed,  strike-arbitration  and  various  other  quack 
cures  for  the  present  rotten  state  of  society  instead  of 
eradicating  the  poison,  which  is,  the  unnatural,  unjust,  wicked 
standard  of  all  values — isouls  and  bodies  no  exception — 
GOLD  the  foundation  of  USURY. 

USURY — Wage  slavery — must  be  abolished;  so  long  as 
Usury  exists  those  who  perform  any  work  useful  to  society 
b}'-  brawn  or  brain  are  Slaves  to  the  motiey-power.  The 
people    perish   for    lack    of   knowledge.      Abolish    Usury    and 

the  income  of  every  worker  would  be  more  than  doubled, 
the  cost  of  living  would  be  cut  in  half,  workers  would  be 
more  than  four  times  better  off;  life  really  would  be  well 
worth   living. 

Professor  Bonamy  Price  defines  money  thus:  "Money 
is  a  tool  of  exchange  and  nothing  more;  it  is  not  a  measure 
of  value,  nor  a  standard  of  value,  nor  a  representative  of 
property;  it  transfers  property  from  one  party  to  another, 
as  a  wagon  hauls  goods  from  one'  place  to  another." 

Only  about  one  person  in  ten  thousand  knows  what 
money  is,  the  nine  thousand  nine  hundred  and  ninety  and 
nine  think  it  is  a  measure  of  value,  or  a  standard  of  value, 
or  a  representative  of  property;  they  even  look  upon  it  as 
wealth;  whereas  it  has  none  of  those  qualities;  it  is  worthless 
until   it   is   exchanged   for   something   desired. 


39^541 


THE  COLOSSAL  CRIME 

The  cause  of  ninety-nine  and  nine-tenth  per  cent  of  all 
crime  is  the  governmental  crime  of  ignoring  the  Decalogue 
and   for  it   substituting  the   UNOLOGUE 

*^THOU  SHALT  PAY  IN  GOLD** 

Government  thus  makes  GOLD 
L     The  *'God." 
IL     The  "graven  image." 

III.  The  ''name  taken  in  vain" — *'In  God  We  Trust"  is  a 
LIE. 

IV.  Disregard    the    ''sabbath" — gold    works    365    days    a 
year. 

V.     Destroy  "honor  to  fathers  and  mothers." 
VI.     Cause  the  "killing"  of  hundreds  of  millions  in  inter- 
national  wars,   civil   wars,    Labor   wars,   sweat-shops, 
factories,   mines,   etc.,   and   most   individual   murders. 
VII.     The  chief  cause  of  "adultery." 
VIII.     Do  nothing  else  but  "steal" — after  it  bears  the  govern- 
»      ment  fiat. 
IX.     "False  witness,"  and 
X.     "Covetousness,"  its  integral  constituents. 

There  was  only  $1,866,619,157  gold  coin  and  bullion  in 
the  United  States  on  15  October,  1913. 

The  annual  business  of  the  United  States  is  about  two 
hundred  and  fifty  billion  dollars:  the  only  absolutely  honest 
money  in  the  country  today  is  the  $346,981,016  of  United 
States  notes — greenback  currency — they  are  backed  by  the 
credit  of  the  nation— all  the  people— and  $490,850,000  silver 
certificates. 
We  stand  $250,000,000,000  annual  business 

2,724,400,173  greenbacks,  gold,  silver  certificates 


$247,275,599,827  Fictitious  money — water,  so  called, 
really  Hell-fumes  through  which  the  bankers,  at  only  ten 
per  cent,  are  robbing  the  workers  of  $24,727,559,982  every 
year. 

Thomas  W.  Lawson  says,  "The  banks  average  28  per  cent, 
their  third  largest  one,  the  First  National  of  New  York, 
paid  in  dividends  1920-— nineteen  hundred  and  twenty — per 
cent   last   year— 1911." 


The  Government  having  made  a  law  which  it  is  impossible 
to  observe,  and,  moreover,  Government  does  not  lift  a  finger 
to  help  provide  sufficient  gold  with  which  the  law  can  be 
kept,  but  proceeds  still  further  in  the  path  of  iniquity  by 
violating  the  Constitution,  which  says:  "Congress  shall  coin 
money  and  regulate  its  value."  Congress  coins  the  money 
and  then  illegally  transfer  the  power  of  regulating  its  value 
to  a  few  bankers,  who  obtain  prostitution  currency  from  the 
Government  and  demand  usury  on  every  dollar  that  is  put 
in  circulation,  which  means  on  every  exchange  that  is  made, 
and  thus  they  steal  eight-tenths  of  all  the  workers  pro- 
ductions. 

Government  having  perpetrated  that  colossal  crime  is 
thereby  forced  to  build  barracks  and  murder-ships,  and  train 
men  to  become  human-butchers — fratricides — to  enforce  that 
crime — one  crime  necessitates  other  crimes — then  govern- 
ment proceeds  to  build  prisons,  poor-houses  and  lunatic 
asylums,  and  fills  them  with  the  natural  sequents  of  the 
colossal  crime,  but  are  not  able  to  provide  for  all  their 
victims,  because,  as  the  population  increases  and  money 
does  not  increase  in  like  ratio,  the  struggle  for  it  increases, 
so,  of  course,  crime,  poverty  and  prostitution  increase  at  an 
ever  increasing  ratio. 

The  increase  of  crime  is  appalling.  Two  news  items  are 
submitted  as  proofs: 

San  Francisco,  12  April,  1914,  Prison  Director  Duffy  said: 
"Our  prison  population  is  constantly  on  the  increase.  In 
San  Quentin  there  are  2,050  and  in  Folsom  1,180  or  a  total 
of  3,230." 

"New  York,  June  6,  1914 — Forty  million  dollars,  con- 
servatively estimated,  is  the  value  placed  by  the  head  of  the 
National  Surety  Company  of  this  city  on  defalcations 
throughout  the  United  States  in  1913.  Thefts  of  more  than 
$4,000,000  were  publicly  reported,  while  burglary  insurance 
policies  paid  and  other  evidences  of  loss  brings  the  total  up 
to  the  first  figure. 

"Of  the  widespread  existence  of  the  defalcation  evil,' 
as  William  B.  Joyce,  president  of  the  company,  calls  it, 
insufficient  salaries  are  placed  at  the  head  of  the  list  of 
causes.  Clerks,  managers  and  cashiers  receiving  $75  to  $100 
a  month  and  trying  to  support  large  families,  form  a  large 
part  of  the  number  of  defaulters." 

Have  we  not  as  a  nation  the  intelligence  to  learn  from 
past  history,  and  draw  the  logical  conclusion  that  we  are 
rapidly  approaching  the  condition  of  Persia,  Egypt,  Babylon, 
Rome,  Athens  and  Carthage,  whose  decline  and  fall  were 
caused  by  USURY. 


The  Americanism  "busted"  if  not  polite,  is  very  expres- 
sive;  it  is  honoftd  by  the   Standard  Dictionary. 
Persia  busted  when  one  per  cent  of  the  people  owned  all 

the  land. 
Egypt   busted   when   two   per   cent   owned   ninety-seven   per 

cent  of  the  wealth. 
Babylon  busted  when  two  per  cent  owned  all  the  wealth. 
Rome    busted    when    eighteen    hundred    men    possessed    the 
known  world. 

"More  than  seven-eighths  of  the  property  of  the  United 
States  is  owned  by  less  than  one  per  cent  of  the  population." 
— Government  Magazine,   1910. 

That  leaves  one-eighth  for  ninety-nine  per  cent  of  the 
people,  so  that  of  every  $100,  $88  belongs  to  one  per  cent 
and  $12  to  the  ninety-nine  per  cent;  a  proportion  of  13  cents 
to  88  dollars,  or  $13  to  $880,000;  to  intensify  the  inequality, 
the  brutal  wickedness  of  the  disparity,  the  $13  man,  woman 
or  child  performs  work  necessary  for  the  nation,  whereas 
the  $880,000  man,  woman  or  child  probably  does  not  perform 
a  single  act  for  the  benefit  of  humanity,  with  the  men  and 
women,  their  lives  are  positively  vicious,  because  they  con- 
sume but  do  not  in  any  way  assist  in  production. 

The  forgoing  figures  are  for  1910,  at  28  per  cent,  their 
capital  has  increased  over   100  per  cent — 112%. 

It  is  a  mathematical  certainty  that  in  less  than  a  decade 
the  United  States  will  surpass  Persia,  Egypt,  Babylon,  Rome, 
Athens  and  Carthage  in  wicked  inequalities,  unless  govern- 
ment "fiat"  money  is  issued  direct  to  the  users  without 
USURY. 

Supposing  the  piece  of  money  that  Peter  took  from  the 
mouth  of  a  fish  was  a  penny,  and  that  the  Nazarene  Car- 
penter deposited  it  at  six  per  cent  USURY,  compounded 
annually,  for  you  and  me,  on  January  1,  1914,  there  would  be 
$25,712,103,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000— 
25,712,103  followed  by  thirty-nine  cyphers — to  our  credit,  and 
to  the  dis-credit  of  USURY. 

If  that  Roman  denarius  could  be  seen  today  it  would 
still  be  the  same  insignificant  metal  disc  that  it  was  1914 
years  ago — not  grown  an  atom — the  inconceivable  amount 
in  dollars  represents  the  sweat,  blood,  lives  of  brothers  and 
sisters:  precisely  the  same  materials  which  compose  the 
dollars  of  all  millionaires! 

The  workers,  the  people  who  make  all  the  wealth,  do  not 
know  why  they  are  suffering  from  poverty,  why  they  do 
not  own  the  wealth  they  create.  Labor  leaders  do  not  tell 
them  why.     Parsons  from   their  rostrums  will  not  disclose 


the  fact.  Professors  of  Sociology  and  Economics  will  not 
elucidate  the  cause  of  extreme  poverty  and  wicked  riches. 
Philanthropists— so  called— will  not  proclaim  how  their 
wealth  was  filched  from  those  who  produced  it. 

Now  friends,  it  is  our  imperative  duty  not  to  allow 
such  conditions  to  continue,  to  grow  more  and  more  acute 
each  month  so  long  as  the  present  "system"  is  allowed  to 
exist,  that  is  a  mathematical  certainty  which  must  be  averted 
by  destroying  "the  system!" 

Henry  Warfield  who  has  made  a  deep  study  of  money, 
finance,  and  Labor  unionism,  says: 

"MONEY  RULES  just  so  long  as  we  endow  it  with 
earning  power  and  just  as  soon  as  we  take  from  it  that 
power,  money  will  cease  to  rule.  Man  cannot  compete  with 
money,  for  money  works  all  the  time,  day  and  night,  Sundays 
and  holidays,  it  needs  neither  food  nor  rest. 

The  people  suffer  from  the  superstition  that  money 
breeds,  lending  or  borrowing  money  does  not  create  more 
money,  but  it  creates  more  debt.  Twenty  year  bonds  at  5 
per  cent  return  to  the  bondholder  all  the  money  given  to 
the  borrower,  and  the  debt  still  stands.  Where  is  the  money 
to  come  from  to  pay  the  principal?  There  is  but  one  way, 
issue  more  bonds,  close  up  one  hole  and  open  two. 

The  producers  of  the  world  are  today  in  financial  bond- 
age to  the  blood-suckers  who  profit  by  the  violation  of  the 
moral  law  which  Moses  gave  to  the  Jews  3500  years  ago. 

Moses,  who  led  the  Jews  out  of  bondage  in  Egypt,  saw 
the  evil  consequences  of  usury:  "Thou  shalt  not  lend  upon 
usury  to  thy  brother,  usury  of  money,  usury  of  victuals, 
usury  of  anything  that  is  lend  upon  usury." — 'Deut-xxiii-19. 

As  Moses  predicted  the  Jews  corrupted  themselves  by 
not  obeying  his  commandments  and  when  conditions  be- 
came bad  they  began  to  look  for  a  Messiah.  The  so-called 
Christian  world  claims  that  Jesus  Christ  was  the  Messiah, 
which  the  Jews  deny,  if  we  are  unprejudiced  we  must  agree 
with  the  Jews;  conditions  prove  that  the  mass  of  the  people 
are  no  better  off  today  than  they  were  1900  years  ago,  if 
anything  they  are  worse  off.  In  spite  of  the  fact  that  we 
are  able  today  to  produce  at  least  5  times  more  than  we 
can  consume,  we  still  have  gross  poverty,  women  and 
children  working  long  hours  in  factories  and  sweatshops 
for  miserable  wages;  while  those  who  profit  from  this 
exploitation  swelter  in  wealth  and  luxury. 

No  sane  man  would  call  this  Christianity;  Christ,  were  he 
to  come  back  would  feel  ashamed  of  his  creation. 


The  Messiah  could  not  come  1900  years  ago,  because 
we  did  not  possess  the  printing  press  at  that  time,  which 
was  invented  in  the  15th  century  by  Johann  Guttenberg. 
The  printing  press  alone  was  not  sufficient  to  bring  relief 
from  the  oppression  of  the  Golden  Calf,  a  paper-mill  is 
another  thing  the  Messiah  will  need  to  save  the  world  from 
the  sin  of  Usury;  the  Messiah  may  now  come,  we  are  ready 
for  him;  all  he  needs  to  do  is  to  convince  the  people  that 
money  can  be  made  of  paper  that  will  serve  the  same  pur- 
pose as  gold,  or  silver,  or  paper  promises  to  pay  either  gold 
or  silver. 

You  worry  over  the  fact  that  the  Messiah  will  have  to 
increase  or  inflate,  as  you  would  say,  the  currency;  but  you 
are  not  a  bit  worried  over  the  inflation  of  BONDS. 

The  greatest  progress  in  the  United  States  was  made 
after  the  Civil  War,  why?  Because  of  the  war  we  got  a 
stable  currency,  made  out  of  paper,  imperfect  as  it  is,  it  has 
nevertheless  more  to  do  with  our  progress  than  most  people 
imagine. 

When  the  Spaniards  brought  the  gold  they  robbed  from 
the  Incas  of  Peru,  to  Europe,  prosperity  at  once  began  to 
blaze  up;  the  prosperity,  however,  did  not  last,  because  the 
gold  was  used  up  in  the  arts  or  was  hoarded.  Paper  money 
obviates  that. 

Under  our  present  laws  money  is  limited  to  gold  and 
United  States  bonds,  the  Reserve  Bank  Currency  will  only 
be  called  out  in  case  of  a  panic.  The  Reserve  Banks  were 
called  into  being  to  save  the  bankers  the  expense  of  issuing 
Clearinghouse  Checks;  that  is  all  very  good  for  the  bankers 
but  what  about  the  rest  of  the  people.  The  bankers  as  a 
class  know  the  least  about  the  proper  function  of  money; 
they  simply  consider  money  their  stock  in  trade  and  be- 
lieve it  their  duty  to  keep  it  as  scarce  as  possible,  in  order 
to  keep  the  rates  of  interest  at  top  notch. 

People  lie  for  money;  they  steal  it  in  preference  to  any- 
thing else;  they  commit  murder  for  it.  If  water  was  as 
scarce  as  money,  the  people  would  lie  for  it,  steal  it,  and 
commit  murder  for  it  also. 

Most  people  are  possessed  of  the  foolish  idea  that  money 
is  a  medium  of  Exchange,  no  bigger  mistake  ever  was  made. 
Money  as  used  today  is  the  means  by  which  the  producers 
of  the  wealth  of  the  world  are  robbed  out  of  untold  Billions 
of  their  product,  just  leaving  them  barely  enough  to  be  able 
to  reproduce  their  kind>  in  order  to  keep  up  this  servitude. 
If  money  was  a  medium  of  exchange,  those  who  worked 
the  most  would  have  the  most.     My  definition  of  money  is 

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that  it  is  a  MEDIUM  OF  ROBBERY,  and  I  defy  any  one 
to  prove  to  the  contrary. 

THE  LEGAL  RATE  OF  INTEREST  in  the  United 
States  is  about  300  per  cent  per  annum.  You  say,  how  is 
that  possible?  Well,  here  it  is:  Of  course  this  includes 
interest,  profit  and  rent,  which  in  the  last  analysis  is  all 
interest  only  under  a  different  name. 

The  circulating  medium,  including  gold,  silver  and  paper, 
is  about  THREE  BILLION  DOLLARS;  the  total  indebt- 
edness on  which  we  pay  interest,  rent  and  profit  is  at  least 
NINETY  BILLION;  the  average  rate  of  interest,  profit 
and  rent  is  at  lest  TEN  per  cent. 

Now  divide  three  in  ninety  and  multiply  the  result  with 
ten  and  the  result  will  be  THREE  HUNDRED  per  cent. 

The  most  wonderful  MONEY  INCUBATOR  is  the  so- 
called  Building  and  Loan  Associations.  The  borrowers  in 
these  institutions  pay  36  per  cent  interest  per  annum.  The  in- 
vestor receives  24  per  cent  per  annum  and  the  diflference 
is   eaten  up  by  the   administration. 

The  so-called  Savings  Banks  are  the  institutions  which 
are  mainly  responsible  for  the  ever  increasing  curse  of 
Landlordism.  These  banks  take  deposits  from  people  who 
have  a  little  money  for  which  they  have  no  use  and  pay 
them  four  per  cent  interest.  Most  of  this  money  is  loaned 
to  Land-Lords  who  use  the  same  money  to  make  Tenants 
out  of  the  producers  and  workers.  Tenant  is  a  refined  name 
for  Slave.  For  instance:  A  Landlord  who  owns  a  corner  lot 
close  to  the  center  of  population,  borrows  ten  thousand 
dollars  from  some  Savings  Bank  at  six  per  cent  interest. 
He  goes  into  the  community  and  hires  an  architect  to  draw 
plans.  The  architect  uses  his  skill  to  make  the  building  a 
fine  investment,  he  lays  out  the  lower  floor  for  stores  and 
business,  the  upper  floors  he  turns  into  as  many  flats  as 
he  can  crowd  in,  regardless  of  the  air  and  light  or  health 
of  his  prospective  Tenants  (Slaves).  The  architect  calls 
for  bids  from  general  contractors  and  the  lowest  bidder 
usually  gets  the  contract.  The  successful  bidder  then  goes 
into  the  community  and  buys  the  necessary  labor  and  mater- 
ial to  construct  the  building.  The  newspapers  congratulate 
the  soon-to-be  Land-Lord  on  his  public  spirit  and  enterprise 
in  putting  up  such  a  fine  building. 

-  When  the  building  is  completed  the  Land-Lord  puts  out  a^ 
sign  "TO  LET;"  this  is  a  polite  invitation  to  the  community 
to  come  and  pay  the  cost  of  the  building  back  in  about  four 
years,   as   some   of   the   apartment   houses   are   doing   today. 


If  you  ask  any  of  those  who  work  on  the  building  the 
question  ''who  is  putting  up  this  building?"  they  will  all  tell 
you  the  name  of  the  Land-Lord.  As  a  master  of  fact  the 
community  furnishes  the  money,  the  community  puts  up  the 
building  and  the  community  pays  the  rent.  The  same  system 
which  has  created  the  LORDS  of  Great  Britain  is  creating 
the   LORDS   of   the   United   States. 

These  so-called  Savings  banks  claim  they  loan  money 
at  six  per  cent.  Let  us  see.  The  interest  to  the  depositors 
is  paid  every  six  months,  while  the  borrowers  are  compelled 
to  pay  the  interest  every  month  in  advance.  Savings  banks 
take  no  risk;  they  always  have  double  security;  they  make 
50  per  cent  on  their  loans;  besides  reloaning  the  interest 
money  again  every  month.  The  Savings  banks  in  the  State 
of  California  alone  have  loaned  ten  times  more  than  the  per 
capita  of  money^  of  the  State  of  California.  Are  you  still 
wondering  why  it  is  getting  harder  every  year  to  make  a 
living.  To  furnish  the  Land-Lord  the  money  and  build  him 
the  house  and  then  pay  him  the  rent;  if  this  is  not  Insanity — 
what  would  you  call  it? 

^  State  banks  are  chartered  by  the  State  under  the  Corpor- 
ation Laws,  relating  to  banking,  business  houses  deposit 
their  surplus  money  in  these  banks  for  which  they  receive 
no  interest.  All  the  security  these  banks  give  is  a  five  cent 
bank  book  and  a  check  book;  if  the  bank  busts,  all  you  get, 
after  many  years  of  waiting,  is  what  is  left.  These  banks 
make  loans  on  Bonds  and  Stocks  and  loan  to  business  houses 
on  sixty  and  ninety  day  notes,  usually  at  six  per  cent  interest. 
When  they  make  a  loan  to  a  customer  say  of  1000  Dollars, 
they  hand  him  a  bank  book  with  a  credit  of  the  amount  and 
2i  check  book.  The  same  1000  Dollar  is  loaned  to  at  least 
nine  more  customers  and  with  the  aid  of  the  Clearing  House 
they  are  enabled  to  collect  interest  on  $10,000  while  they 
have  but  1000  Dollars  in  their  vault.  Ninety-five  per  cent 
of  all  business  today  is  done  by  means  of  bank  checks, 
practically  the  only  cash  that  leaves  the  banks  is  money  to 
rob  the  Wage-Slaves. 

National  Banks  are  chartered  by  the  National  Govern- 
ment. The  National  Bank  Act  was  passed  during  the  Civil 
War,  while  nobody  was  looking.  These  banks  have  no  legal 
existence  as  Congress  was  never  given  the  power  to  issue 
charters  to  any  bank.  These  banks  cannot  exist  without  a 
National  Debt  and  this  Banking  System  is  the  worst  fraud 
ever  put  over  the  American  people. 

Any  five  men  with  $25,000  worth  of  United  States  bonds 
can  get  a  charter  from  the  Treasurer  of  the  United  States, 

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to  open  a  so-called  National  Bank.  They  are  then  allowed 
to  deposit  those  bonds  with  the  Treasurer  who  pays  the 
interest  thereon  every  three  months,  amounting  from  two  to 
four  per  cent.  This  is  interest  number  one.  Then  the 
Treasurer  of  the  United  States  hands  out  to  this  so-called 
National  Bank  $25,000  worth  of  Bank  Notes,  which  for  all 
intents  and  purposes  are  every  bit  as  good  as  gold,  for 
which  these  bankers  pay  to  the  Treasury  one-half  of  one 
per  cent  interest,  or  just  enough  to  cover  the  cost  of  mak- 
ing same.  A  very  large  per  cent  of  the  people  of  this 
Usury  cursed  country  actually  believe  that  these  banks  are 
really  what  the  name  implies,  viz:   "NATIONAL." 

After  they  get  their  illegal  charter  they  open  their  doors 
with  the  fraudulent  sign  over  same,  for  instance  "First 
National  Bank."  They  then  begin  to  loan  these  same 
bank  notes  ten  times  over  the  counter,  drawing  eleven 
times  interest  on  their  original  investment  of  $25,000.  These 
banks  charge  6,  8,  and  10,  per  cent  interest.  Under  the 
recent  Reserve  Banking  Act  they  have  been  authorized  to 
loan  to  farmers.     God  pity  the  farmers. 

Great  Britain  was  the  first  country  to  discover  that  by 
controlling  money,  you  also  control  wages  and  for  this 
reason  voluntarily  abolished  chattel  slavery  in  the  dominions 
under  her  control.  As  a  result  of  the  invention  of  the 
steam  engine,  the  workers  were  transferred  from  their  small 
work  shops  to  the  large  factories  driven  by  steam  power. 
The  surplus  product  of  these  factories,  after  paying  the 
wages  of  the  workers,  which  were  based  on  their  actual 
necessities,  was  sent  to  foreign  countries  or  to  British 
Colonies  and  either  exchanged  or  invested,  with  the  result 
that  Great  Britain  has  now  at  least  $20,000,000,000  invested 
in  her  Colonies  and  other  countries,  bringing  her  an  annual 
income  of  about  $1,000,000,000.  On  account  of  this  enormous 
income  Great  Britain  cannot  have  a  protective  tariff,  free 
trade  being  greatly  responsible  f^r  the  decline  of  her 
industries. 

When  in  1783  Great  Britain  retired  from  the  political 
control  of  the  American  Colonies  (United  States),  she  had 
made  up  her  mind  to  obtain  financial  control  and  got  in 
her  fine  hand  in  the  making  of  the  Constitution.  3500  years 
ago  Moses,  the  greatest  lawyer  ever  known,  told  the  Jews, 
Deuteronomy  XV,  6:  "But  thou  shalt  not  borrow."  But 
the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  contains  the  following 
clause:  "The  Congress  shall  have  power  to  borrow  money 
on  the  credit  of  the  United  States."— Clause  2,  Section  VIII, 
Article  1. 

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The  fifth  clause  of  the  same  section  says  the  following: 
"Congress  shall  have  power  to  coin  money  and  regulate  the 
value  thereof,  and  of  foreign  coin." 

The  power  of  Congress  is  not  limited  to  gold  or  any 
other  material  for   the   purpose   of  making  money. 

The  intrinsic  value  theory  of  money  is  a  gross  humbug 
taught  for  the  purpose  of  keeping  the  people  in  ignorance, 
if  anyone  should  ask  for  intrinsic  value  in  bonds  he  would 
be  considered  a  lunatic;  the  value  is  not  in  the  money,  but 
in  whatever  money  will  buy;  if  it  will  not  buy  anything, 
it  has  no  value.- 

In  the  colonial  days  an  attempt  was  made  by  Pennsyl- 
vania to  issue  a  Land  Currency,  which  was  very  successful 
and  therefore  the  English  prohibited  it.  These  interferences, 
however,  with  many  others  brought  on  the  revolutionary 
war.  During  this  war  the  Colonies  issued  what  is  known 
as  the  Continental  currency,  this  currency  was  made  pay- 
able in  Spanish  milled  dollars;  all  this  currency  got  into  the 
hands  of  speculators  and  w^as  repudiated  after  the  war. 
Soon  after  Congress  organized  the  "UNITED  STATES 
BANK"  on  the  same  plan  as  the  Bank  of  England;  this 
bank,  however,  w^as  howled  out  of  existence  by  the  Demo- 
crats, who  substituted  the  State  Bank  System.  Under  the 
State  Bank  System  the  bankers  were  allowed  to  issue  three 
dollars  paper  currency  for  every  dollar  they  had  in  coin;  this 
of  course  led  to  abuses. 

The  bankers  and  money-brokers  naturally  took  advantage 
of  this  condition  and  waxed  fat  by  discounting  these  notes, 
which  were  made  payable  in  coin,  which  in  fact  did  not 
exist.  This  rotton  banking  system  combined  with  the  agita- 
tion against  chattel  slavery  brought  on  the  Civil  War.  The 
young  Republican  Party  elected  Abraham  Lincoln,  Presi- 
dent, by  a  small  pluralty.  The  new  President  was  hardly 
seated  when  he  found  himself  confronted  with  a  rebellion. 
The  Slave  owning  States  rather  than  lose  their  slaves  would 
secede  and  set  up  a  Republic  of  their  own.  While  he  found 
plenty  of  men  willing  to  fight  for  the  preservation  of  the 
Union,  yet  he  could  not  find  any  money  willing  to  take 
the  risk  for  less  than  three  per  cent  per  month. 

Abraham  Lincoln  refused  to  pay  this  exhorbitant  interest, 
and  sent  a  message  to  Congress,  asking  for  an  issue  of  full 
legal  tender  TREASURY  NOTES.  A  bill  was  passed 
authorizing  the  Treasurer  of  the  United  States  to  issue 
$50,000,000  full  LEGAL  TENDER  TREASURY  NOTES, 
receiveable  for  all  debts  public  and  private.  These  NOTES 
POSSESSING    the    same    qualification    possessed    by    Gold, 

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never  depreciated  one  cent.  An  additional  $10,000,000  mak- 
ing a  total  of  $60,000,000  was  authorized. 

EXCEPTION  CLAUSE.  As  soon  as  the  bloodsuckers 
discovered  that  the  government  was  making  money  of  paper 
that  w^as  just  as  good  as  gold,  they  at  once  rushed  to  Wash- 
ington, held  a  conference  with  the  Treasurer  of  the  United 
States  and  induced  him  by  hook  and  crook  to  recall  the 
$60,000,000,  full  legal  tenders  and  issue  in  their  stead 
$150,000,000  new  notes  with  the  EXCEPTION  CLAUSE 
on    the    back;    thus    stabbing   our   own   money   in    the   back. 

The  bloodsuckers  asked  for  their  pound  of  flesh  in  Gold, 
while  the  Soldiers  on  the  battle  line  had  to  be  contented 
with  a  depreciated  currency.  The  entire  Civil  War  could 
have  been  concluded  without  the  issuance  of  any  Bonds 
or  creating  one  cent  of  debt,  had  the  EXCEPTION  CLAUSE 
been  kept  from  these  notes;  by  this  shameful  act  we  refused 
to  take  our  own  money  over  our  own  counter. 

This  one  act  was  the  greatest  crime  ever  committed 
against  the  American  people  by  their  own  public  servants; 
nearly  all  crime,  poverty  and  prostitution  can  be  traced 
back  to  this  crime  of  all  crimes.  As  a  result  of  this  crime 
billions  of  bonds  were  issued,  the  bloodsuckers  bought  up 
the  depreciated  currency  and  received  dollar  for  dollar  in 
bonds  from  the  Treasury,  the  final  result  of  this  greatest 
of  all  crimes  was  a  public  debt  amounting  to  $2,800,000,000 
These  bonds  although  bought  with  paper  currency  were 
later  made   payable   in   Gold   Coin. 

The  MONEY  POWER  is  international,  headed  princi- 
pally by  the  Rothschild  family;  this  power  saw  its  finish 
should  the  United  States  learn  by  accident  how  to  make  its 
own  money  in  time  of  peace,  and  thus  do  away  with  Shy- 
lock's    occupation. 

The  next  scheme  was  to  call  in  all  the  legal  tender  notes 
and  burn  them  up;  the  only  man  in  their  way  was  ABRA- 
HAM LINCOLN;  assassination  was  the  only  way  to  get 
rid  of  him,  and  was  resorted  to;  the  assassin  was  never 
captured. 

The  assassin  no  doubt  was  well  rewarded  by  the  money 
power.  After  Abraham  Lincoln's  death  a  bill  was  passed 
through  Congress  to  call  in  all  the  Legal  Tender  notes, 
which  had  saved  the  Union,  issue  Bonds  in  their  stead,  and 
consign  them  to  the  furnace.  The  organization  of  a  new 
political  party  known  as  the  GREENBACK  PARTY  saved 
$346,981,016  from   destruction. 

With  the  development  of  the  Western  territories  great 
silver  mines  were  discovered.     The   silver  miners  were  per- 

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mitted  to  bring  their  silver  bars  to  the  mints  and  have  them 
coined  into  money,  at  the  ratio  of  16  to  1;  these  mines  paid 
well  so  long  as  the  government  put  a  price  and  its  stamp 
upon  the  silver,  but  the  bloodsuckers  at  once  saw  the  danger 
of  an  inflation  in  basic  money. 

In  order  to  prevent  money  becoming  too  plentiful  in 
the  United  States,  the  bankers  sneaked  a  bill  through  Con- 
gress under  the  cover  of  Mint  regulations,  demonetizing 
silver,  taking  from  the  silver  miners  the  right  to  take  their 
silver  to  the  mint  and  have  it  coined  into  money.  The 
money  power  destroyed  the  people's  money  by  burning  the 
Greenbacks  and  the  demonetization  of  silver  and  it  is  our 
duty  now  to  destroy  their  Golden  Calf  by  taking  from  Gold 
the  privilege  of  free  coinage. 

In  1878  an  act  was  passed  through  Congress  entitled  the 
"RESUMPTION  OF  SPECIE  PAYMENT;"  by  this  time 
the  legal  tender  notes  were  on  a  par  with  the  bloodsucker's 
gold,  in  spite  of  the  exception  clause  on  the  back  of  them; 
the  Treasurer  was  instructed  to  redeem  the  legal  tenders 
with  borrowed  gold  for  which  we  are  being  taxed  to  pay 
interest  to  the  bloodsuckers. 

The  silver  miners  were  not  satisfied  with  being  deprived 
of  their  privilege  of  free  coinage  of  silver,  the  money-trust, 
however,  in  Congress  refused  to  restore  silver  to  its  former 
privilege,  but  passed  the  Bland-Allison  act,  instructing  the 
Treasury  to  purchase  from  the  lowest  bidder  $2,000,000 
worth  of  silver  bullion  per  month  and  coin  same  into  stand- 
ard dollars.  This,  however,  did  not  prove  satisfactory  to 
the  silver  miners,  so  this  law  was  repealed  and  the  Sherman 
Law  passed  in  its  stead,  which  required  the  Treasurer  to 
purchase  4,500,000  ounces  of  silver  per  month  from  the 
lowest  bidder  and  paid  with  silver  certificates.  The  blood- 
suckers did  not  want  any  money  they  could  not  control 
and  the  opportunity  came  in  1893  with  the  panic,  which 
was  blamed  to  the  Sherman  Act.  Cleveland  was  seated, 
silver  received  its  final  blow.  When  Grover  the  first  issued 
$262,000,000  worth  of  bonds,  the  idle  money  of  the  blood- 
suckers was  invested  and  the  people  were  taxed  to  pay 
the  interest  on  the  bonds.  Grover's  second  term  happened 
in  the  beginning  of  the  seven  lean  years,  and,  as  the  people 
always  do,  they  took  revenge  on  the  democratic  party  and 
elected  William  McKinley,  a  republican,  for  President;  he 
was  a  strong  silver  man  as  a  Congressman,  but  the  election 
as  President  on  the  bloodsucker's  ticket  swelled  his  head 
and  he  became  an  easy  convert  and  tool  for  the  most 
damnable  trust  under  the  sun. 

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William  McKinley  sold  his  soul  to  the  most  implacable 
foes  of  the  American  people— GREAT  BRITAIN,  or  rather 
the  British  Jew-money-power.  William  McKinley  signed 
the  bill  making  British  Jew  Gold;  and  its  shadow,  the  only 
legal  money  of  the  United  States.  As  God  has  a  hand  in 
everything  he  must  have  had  a  hand  also  in  the  assassination 
of  William  McKinley — the  assassin  was  caught  and  executed; 
unlike  the  case  of  Abraham  Lincoln. 

The  bloodsuckers,  not  satisfied  yet,  had  a  bill  passed 
through  Congress  amending  the  so-called  National  Bank  Act, 
changing  the  circulation  privilege  from  90  per  cent  to  100 
per  cent  and  reducing  the  tax  or  interest  from  one  per  cent 
to  one-half  per  cent  per  annum. 

The  Regional  Reserve  Bank  Act  was  passed  to  save  the 
bloodsuckers  the  expense  of  issuing  clearinghouse  certifi- 
cates, the  system  is  so  arranged  that  there  will  be  no  benefit 
to  the  people  except  when  there  is  a  panic;  then  the  people 
will  be  handed  emergency  currency,  instead  of  clearinghouse 
checks.  All  we  have  to  do  now  is  to  forget  that  there  is 
a  depression  in  the  country,  as  our  "DEAR"  President 
WOODROW  WILSON  has  recently  said,  and  everything 
will  be  lovely.  Just  think,  my  dear  readers,  we  pay  this 
College-Professor  $75,000  per  year  besides  his  keep,  and  if  he 
were  appointed  by  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain  as  Governor 
General,  he  could  not  be  more  subservient  to  that  power. 
His  son-in-law  has  paid  us  a  visit  lately  and  told  us,  that 
we  will  have  good  times  soon.  Just  think  what  brainy  men 
we  have  in  charge  of  our  National  affairs. 

The  latest  report  from  the  controller  of  the  misnamed 
national  banks  shows  that  we  are  most  generous  to  the 
bloodsuckers.  We  have  made  them  a  present  of  $1,018,- 
193,636,  in  bank  notes,  for  which  they  pay  to  the  United 
States  Treasury  a  fraction  over  $5,090,000  per  annum,  about 
the  cost  of  making  the  currency,  for  the  privilege  of  using 
this  currency  the  producers  of  this  nation  pay  $610,800,000 
annually  to  the  bloodsuckers. 

We  are  told  over  and  over  that  this  is  a  free  country, 
it  is  free  of  men  with  common  sense;  we  have  lots  of 
schools,  colleges  and  universities;  but  the  education  they 
impart  must  be  wrong  or  else  such  conditions  could  not 
exist. 

Teach  your  children  what  money  should  be  and  save 
them  from  slavery. 

SCAB  MONEY.  Union  men  are  often  fined  for  buying 
non-union  made  goods   or  for  patronizing  non-union   estab- 

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lishments,  this  means  one  working  man  fighting  another;  oi 
course  nothing  could  be  more  desirable  for  the  bloodsuckers. 
The  United  Workers'  Union  is  organized  to  fight  the  blood- 
suckers, we  care  nothing  about  hours  or  wages,  we  let 
those  take  care  of  themselves,  but  we  will  not  work  for 
the  bloodsuckers  money,  or  scab-money.  All  gold-coin 
and  all  currency  payable  in  gold-coin  and  all  national  bank 
currency  is  SCAB  money;  this  money  produces  crime,  pov- 
erty, prostitution  and  war.  Treasury  Notes,  Greenbacks, 
Silver  Coins  and  Silver  Certificates  are  Union  Money,  that 
will  produce  prosperity  for  all;  it  will  compel  those  now 
riding  on  the  back  of  labor  to  get  off  and  make  their  own 
living." 

February  4,  1914,  I  went  to  the  Federal  Reserve  Bank 
in  this  city  with  a  $1,000  United  States  Bond  and  asked  for 
a  loan  of  $400  for  30  days  at  5  per  cent  and  was  refused — 
Henry   Warfield. 

Comment  is  unnecessary — think  it  out,  think  hard. 

POSTAL  SAVINGS  BANKS  were  organized  in  England 
by  Gladstone,  16  September,  1861;  there  is  now  over  $1,000,- 
000,000  deposits— THE  GOVERNMENT  USES  IT.'  Our 
bankers  would  not  allow  us  those  benefits  until  fifty  years 
after,  and,  then,  only  because  they  realized  that  through  the 
numerous  disgraceful  failures  of  Savings  Banks,  the  workers 
were  hoarding  their  small  savings,  'and  would  not  trust  the 
bankers.  The  bankers  wanted  those  many  small  amounts, 
and  therefore  permitted  the  government  to  establish  the 
Post-Office  Savings  Banks,  on  conditions  that  they  act  as 
collecting  agents  for  them — the  bankers — and  they  would  pay 
the  government  2^  per  cent,  the  government  to  pay  the 
depositors  2  per  cent.  Then  when  the  government  wanted 
that  money  it  must  borrow  it  from  the  bankers.  The  Panama 
Canal  could  have  been  built  with  Post-Office  Savings  Bank 
deposits,  or  better  still,  by  an  issue  of  Panama  Greenbacks, 
that  would  have  relieved  the  money  stringency  from  which 
we  are  suffering  so  acutely,  it  would  be  real,  honest  money 
that  could  not  be  cornered. 

POVERTY.  George  A  Hall,  Secretary  New  York  Child 
Labor  Committee,  states  there  are  1,750,000  child  w^orkers 
from  ten  to  fifteen  years  of  age  working  8,  9,  10  and  11 
hours  a  day. 

During  the  two  decades  ending  1900  the  Federal  Census 
shows  that  while  child  labor  increased  fifty-six  per  cent — • 
more  by  twelve  per  cent  than  the  increase  in  child  popula- 
tion— little    girl   workers   increased   sixty-five   per   cent. 

The  Federal   Census,  of   1910  shows  there   were   5,516,163 

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persons  ten  years  of  age  and  over,  unable  to  read  and  write. 

These  facts  alone  are  proofs  as  to  the  increase  of  poverty; 
there  are  20,000,000  in  this  country  unprecedented  as  to  wealth 
suffering  from  actual  poverty;  it  is  heartbreaking  to  contem- 
plate the  next  generation. 

New  York,  March  16,  1914 — According  to  reports  received 
by  the  Charity  organization  society,  there  is  more  poverty 
and  destitution  in  New  York  now  than  in  the  last  forty 
years.  Never  before  in  its  history  has  the  society  been 
called  upon  to  help  so  many  families.  Yesterday  it  had  2781 
families  in  its  care,  an  increase  of  548  over  the  same  season 
.last  year.  During  February,  1914,  it  helped  3313  families,  an 
increase  of  642  over  February,  1912. 

THE  SOCIAL  EVIL— Many  persons  are  foolishly  wast- 
ing valuable  time  and  energy  in  proposing  legislation  'for 
what  is  termed  the  "red  light"  districts  of  the  falsely  called 
"Social  Evil,"  some  are  in  favor  of  segregating,  others  pro- 
pose licensing  the  "white  slaves"  as  they  facetiously  or 
sarcastically  designate   them. 

A  little  honest  reasoning  should  convince  the  makers  of 
man-laws  and  show  them  the  absurdity  of  their  antics,  be- 
cause the  "Social  Evil"  that  produces  all  other  evils,  is 
already  legalized,  is  most  fully  protected;  can  be,  and  is, 
practised  anywhere,  everywhere,  with  all  the  powers  of  gov- 
ernment   to   protect    the    traffickers    in    USURY. 

The  falsely  called  "Social  Evil"  is  not  an  evil  but  a^  power, 
only  second  to  that  of  self  preservation,  in  fact  sex  attraction 
very  frequently  does  not  take  the  second  but  the  first  place 
in  natural  law;  that  is  proved  by  numerous  suicides  of  men 
and  women,  who  because  of  absurd  laws  and  regulations 
are  not  allowed  to  consumate  their  burning  desires;  normal 
men  and  women  know  the  power  of  that  wise  provision  of 
the   universe,   the   procreative   instinct. 

The  real  "red  light"  districts  are  the  banks;  through  "the 
system"  workers  are  robbed  on  every  exchange  they  make; 
eight-tenths  of  their  products  are  stolen  from*  them,  THAT 
CAUSES  PROSTITUTION;  women  not  able  to  support 
themselves  decently  and  honestly;  yoimg  men  unable  to 
support  wives  and  children. 

There  is  more  prostitution,  and  of  a  viler  grade,  among 
the  wealthy  than  with  the  workers. 

Stop  USURY  and  all  would  be  economically  free — that 
would  end   prostitution   of  bodies,  brains   and   talents. 

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CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 

We,  the  People  of  the  United  States  in  order  to  form  a 
more  perfect  Union,  establish  Justice,  insure  domestic  Tran- 
quility, provide  for  the  common  defense,  promote  the  gen- 
eral Welfare,  and  secure  the  Blessings  of  Liberty  to  our- 
selves and  our  posterity,  do  ordain  and  establish  this  Con- 
stitution for  the  United  States  of  America: 

UNION  is  impossible  between  the  robbers  and  the 
robbed — the  gold-standard  divides  all  of  us  into  those  two 
classes. 

JUSTICE  is  impossible  under  an  unjust  standard-of- 
value. 

TRANQUILITY  is  impossible  between  the  "haves"  and 
the  "have-nots;"  the  "have-nots"  having  produced  all  the 
"haves"  have. 

WELFARE— There  are  2,000,000  dis-employed,  not 
allowed  by  the  gold-standard  to  earn  a  living;  there  are 
now  20,000,000  Brothers  and  Sisters  in  actual  poverty  under 
this  Constitution  of  the  United  States. 

BLESSINGS  OF  LIBERTY  are  unknown  in  the  United 
States,  it  is  an  impossible  condition  under  the  gold-standard 
of  all  values — bodies  and  souls  not  excepted. 

SUPERSTITION  is  the  power  with  which  the  wealthy 
are  able  to  keep  the  workers  in  abject  slavery;  the  hydra- 
headed-monster  is  MONEY,  CHURCH,  FLAG. 

MONEY.  Workers  have  been  taught  to  believe  they  are 
being  paid  for  their  Labor  when  the  act  of  robbing  them  of 
eight-tenths  of  the  products  of  their  toil  is  being  perpetrated. 

CHURCH.  "Blessed  are  the  meek  for  they  shall  inherit  the 
earth"  is  impressed  on  the  workers  by  the  sleek  who  own 
the  earth  and  all  things  thereon  and  therein.  Carnegie, 
Morgan,  John  D.  Rockefeller  Sr.,  and  John  D.  Rockefeller 
Jr.,  the  Bible  class  instructor,  are  offered  as  proofs. 

All  churches  ignore  the  tWo  fundamental  ethics  of  the 
cosmos:  "Take  thou  no  USURY  or  increase  from  him." 
"The  land  shall  not  be  sold." — both  were  old  when  the 
man-made     Bible     was     compiled,     they     ^rt     an     integral 

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part  of  every  soul  when  created;  they  are  observed  by  tribes 
not  tainted  by  the  uncivilizing  power  of  a  false  standard- 
of-value;  that  is  the  evil  which  obliterates  all  high  aspira- 
tions, chokes  all  brotherhood  sympathies,  destroys  love,  is 
the  most  prolific  breeder  of  family  discord,  is  the  chief  cause 
of  divorce  and  prostitution. 

The  church  is  an  adjunct  of  the  money-power;  it  always 
has  been;  Jesus  was  murdered  by  the  High  Priests  and 
bankers  because  he  whipped  the  USURERS  out  of  the 
Temple. 

Tolstoy  said  churches  are  the  farthest  possible  removed 
from  the  ideals  of  the  Nazarene  Carpenter. 

Anyone  believing  in  divinity  and  also  pretending  to  Doc- 
tor Divinity  is  not  fit  to  be  trusted  by  any  working 
Carpenter,  or  by  any  other  working  man,  woman,^  or  child; 
the  mentality  or  brain  power  of  Doctorers  of  Divinity  must 
be  either  addled  or  prostituted;  it  would  be  wisdom  on 
the  part  of  the  clergy  to  abolish  the  ridiculous  assumptive. 
"I  am  holier  than  thou" — titles  of  Reverend  and  D.D.  with 
which  they  tag  each  other  to  denote  "par  excellence"  types 
of  the  meek  and  lowly  Nazarene  Carpenter  who  had  not 
even  a  bed  to  call  his  own. 

What  is  the  honest  or  dishonest  object  of  the  title  D.D.? 
Does  it  mean  that  God  in  his  infinite  wisdom  has  shown 
partiality   by   revealing   certain   secrets   to    his    chosen   few? 

FLAG.  National  flags  are  symbols  of  hatred,  war  against 
all  other  flags;  the  origin  of  flags  was  for  the  sole  purpose 
of  protecting  the  property  of  the  wealthy  and  stealing  rnore, 
quite  regardless  of  the  consequent  loss  of  blood  and  lives; 
the  rich  do  not  enlist,  they  pay  the  workers  with  money 
stolen  from  workers,  to  join  the  army  and  be  transformed 
into  murderers  and  targets  for  murderers  under  another 
flag;  this  degradation  is  submitted  to  for  a  paltry  $15  per 
month  for  the  purpose  of  protecting  those  who  rob  Labor 
of  their  products,  some  even  to  the  extent  of  from  $5,000,000 
to  $10,000,000  a  month! 

A  piece  of  linen  rag  used  as  an  handkerchief  is  of  more 
use  to  workers  than  all  the  flags  of  all  nations  of  the  world; 
national  flags  are  never  unfurled  on  behalf  of  Labor;  the 
Stars  and  Stripes  are  no  protection  to  workers;  more  than 
100  men,  women  and  children  were  murdered  in  Ludlow, 
Colorado  by  the  Rockefeller  Army,  the  tents  of  these 
victims   of   greed-for-gold   bore   the   American   flags    at   the 

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time  of  the  murders;  this  was  in  April  in  this  year  of  our 
Lord,  1914,  under  Christian  civilization;  another  100  men, 
women  and  children  are  missing,  it  is  supposed  their  bodies 
were  burned  with  Standard  Oil  to  hide  the  murders. 

New  York,  May  28,  1914— Judge  Ben  B.  Lindsey  of 
Denver,  testifying  today  before  the  federal  commission 
investigating   the   Colorado  mine   war,   said: 

"Colorado  has  perfected  the  science  of  corrupting  men. 
Its  judges,  its  supreme  court  judges,  are  owned  like  office 
boys,  its  lawyers,  its  businessmen,  all  are  owned.  The 
capitalists  in  Colorado  have  carried  out  the  most  perfidious 
deals  to  control  the  agencies  of  the  laws,  and  not  only  make 
the  laws,  but  prevent  the  enforcement  of  laws." 

One  flag  only  means  the  same  in  all  countries,  love  of 
humanity,  brotherhood  of  all  races,  that  is  the  Red  Flag,  the 
color  of  all  human  blood,  be  the  skin  white,  yellow  or  black, 
that  flag  is  anathematized  by  all  governments  because  it 
stands  for  nature's  laws  against  man-made-laws;  it  is  sym- 
bolical of  the  Brotherhood  of  Man. 

February  12,  1915 — Col.  Harris  Weinstock  has  returned 
from  the  Industrial  Commission  Hearing  in  New  York, 
where  Rockefeller  Senior,  Junior,  and  Carnegie  made  con- 
sumate  asses  of  themselves  for  the  amusement  of  the  think- 
ing minority  of  the  world.  Weinstock  was  one  of  the 
actors  on  the  same  commission  at  the  Palace  Hotel  in 
August  last;  speaking  of  the  New  York  meeting  he  says: 
"The  suggestions  and  general  trend  of  the  discussion  was 
along  the  line  of  issuing  BONDS  by  the  State  to  enable 
the  employment  of  the  temporarily  unemployed  in  public 
construction    work,    road-building,   and    the    like." 

He  uses  the  word  "unemployed"  instead  of  dis-employed, 
— not  allowed  to  earn  their  living — the  unemployed  are  the 
idle  rich,  too  lazy  and  too  stupid  to  be  able  to  earn  a  living. 

Their  specious  remedy  to  assist  the  industrial  class  is 
precisely  the  same  as  Arch-Demon-English-Banker-Haz- 
zard's  plan  to  enslave  every  American  worker  by  issuing 
BONDS.  Then  note  the  still  further  iniquity,  the  BONDS 
are  to  be  used  to  enhance  the  LAND-LORDS'  property, 
and  one  step  deeper,  every  cent  of  every  BOND  and  all 
interest  will  be  composed  of  workers'  sweat,  blood  and  lives. 

WORKERS,  we  who  perform  any  useful  work  in  home, 
store,  office,  field,  workshop,  factory,  and  elsewhere,  must 
UNITE  in  ONE  UNION,  and  stop  being  fooled  and 
robbed  by  the  Weinstocks,  Rockefellers,  Carnegies,  and  all 
of  that  ilk,  WHOSE  FORTUNES  WE  MAKE. 

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»  iVeaUA  tut  Ltft—Rutkim.  It  is  evtry  man's  dmtf  tut  te  sent  as  a  soldier—  Tolstty 


These  are  the  reiulu  of  Cbriitian  civilization,  wHh  11,4^9,96.$  Brothen  and  Sitters  in  actual  poverty.    \riu/,t<i"s an  R,, 

M.OOO.OOO:  ftt  %%  USURY  U  mora  thui  tl.OMi.eM.OOO.  alt  payabi*  In  ooM  coin.     The  ai 

. .. ,     _     ._  O.0«0.()00:    th»t    belonvi   to  •HVLOCK  practically  th«  Inatant  it  Is  out  of  the  snnisd. 

••U  It  lu\tns  hU  •ONOSLAVK*  ov«r  l»00,000.0«0  In  debt.     H«  haa  all  th«  power  of  thu  (ovemment— police.  Uwyera,  shertOa,  judi 


8.    haa    never   reached    noO.MO.DOO:    that    belon«a   to  •HVLOCK  practically  th«  Inatant  It  la  out  of  the  snnisd.     AnrSow  ha 

JONOSLAVK*  over  1*00,000.000  In  debt.     He  haa  all  the  power  of  the  »ovemmenl— police.  Uwyeni,  .h.rt*.    •.~t~.    I 

te,  anpreme  court.  mlUtla.  amy  and  nav>— to  enable  blm  to  collect.  consequMitly  »HYLOCK  takea  tOOO.000.000  war 
'from  them  each  year.     Thla  al«*  la  20th  Century  CHRISTIANITY,  and  the  Ba«{e  »r •"- " 


^A^SSivl 


"I  pray  TOU,  let  ua  leave  o<r  thla  uaury:  reatore,  I  pray  you.  to  them,  even  thU  day,  their  landa,  their  vinvarda,  their  olive  yard^  and  thel 
hauMa:  alao.  the  hun4r«4«i  part  af  the  money,  and  of  the  oom,  the  wla^  and  the  oil  that  ye  exact  of  them."*  Chrl«tlan»—ao-caUad— treat  thi 
— "■- "he  babbllnc  of  an  old  foaall  named  NehemOah— Ch.  V.  veraea  lO-ll.     All  ethica  of  their  •'bible"  are  tcnorad,  bat  they  dote  e 


(The  above  letter  heading  has  been  used  as  an  educa- 
tional factor  for  many  years,  and  formed  an  integral  part  of 
the  following  letter  to  Woodrow  Wilson— since  it  was  printed 
the  bonded  debts  have  doubled  and  consequently  the  number 
of  those  in  actual  poverty  has  doubled.) 

San  Francisco,  January  13,  1913. 

Governor  Woodrow  Wilson 
President  Elect, 

Z'^  West-State  St.,  Trenton,  N.  J. 
My  Dear  Sir: 

Most  heartily  I  thank  you  for  your  brave,  noble  words 
to  the  Commercial  Club,  Chicago,  on  the  11th  instant. 

They  will  be  inspirations  to  the  workers,  and  give  them 
hope  that  you  will  really  work  to  bring  about  Social  Justice 
— the  ideal  of  the  producing  class — which  is  an  impossibility 
under  "the  system,"  you  said:  "We  must  see  to  it  that 
business  is  set  free  of  every  feature  of  monopoly." 

"I  want  to  take  the  sternness  out  of  this  country.  I 
want  to  remove  suspicion.  As  matters  now  stand,  perfectly 
honest,  upright  men,  whom  anybody  could  pick  out,  are 
at  a   disadvantage  in   this   country." 

"Business  conditions  are  not  trusted  by  the  people  as 
a  whole.  This  is  unfair  to  you  or  anybody  that  business 
touches.  The  people  do  not  believe  in  the  United  States — 
the  rank  and  file  of. our  people  do  not  believe  that  men  of 
every  kind  are  upon  an  equality  not  only  in  their  access  to 
the  resources  of  the  country,  but  as  to  the  justice  of  the 
country.'* 

"It  is  believed  in  this  country  that  the  poor  man  has 
less  chance  to  get  justice  than  the  rich  man.  God  forbid  that 
that  should  be  generally  true'  But  so  long  as  that  is  true, 
the  belief  constitutes  a  threatening  fact." 

Some  little  time  back  you  publicly  said.  "The  concentra- 
tion of  money  is  the  greatest  evil  today." 

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In  fact  the  money  monopoly  is  father,  mother  and  wet 
nurse  of  every  other  monopoly,  and  therefore  must  be  de- 
stroyed before  the  other  monopolies  can  be  suppressed. 

The  Workers  Homes  Bill  was  thought. out  with  that  ex- 
press purpose  in  view,  as  the  safest  and  quietest  way  in 
which  to  accomplish  that  stupendous  change;  the  proposition 
is  now  in  the  hands  of  the  Committee  on  Finance  in  the 
Senate,  and  the  Committee  on  Banking  and  Currency  in  the 
House. 

I  herewith  enclose  a  copy,  if  you  will  give  it  your  approval 
and  support,  it  could  be  made  law  even  against  the  opposi- 
tion of  House  and.  Senate,  because,  every  Labor  Union  in 
the  country  would  assist  you  in  forcing  the  passage  of  the 
Bill. 

You  are  well  aware  of  Nehemiah's  views  on  USURY — 
"the  system" — also  those  of  the  Nazarene  Carpenter,  how 
the  only  reported  occasion  on  which  the  gentle,  loving  Jesus, 
was  so  incensed  as  to  use  physical  force,  was  when  he 
whipped  the  USURERS  out  of  The  Temple. 

You  know  how  Lycurgus  accomplished  his  most  difficult 
task,  that  of  destroying  the  money-power. 

Also  how  the  same  end  was  gained  in  England  in  1797 
when  specie  payment  was  suspended,  and  an  enormous 
amount  of  irredeemable  paper  money  was  issued:  "The 
result  was  magical"  as  Sir  Archibald  Alison  writes  in  his 
History  of  Europe. 

The  great  and  noble  Lincoln  destroyed  the  money-power, 
when  he  issued  the  "Greenbacks,"  but  unfortunately  the 
cunning  bankers  in  their  greed  soon  circumvented  that  meas- 
ure of  justice  to  the  workers. 

J.  Pierpont  Morgan  testified  before  the  Pujo  Committee 
that  there  is  no  money  Trust,  that  he  did  not  control  any- 
thing, he  had  never  tried  to  control  anything,  he  did  not 
wish  to  control  anything;  and  yet  the  Pujo  Committee  had 
proved  that  J.  Pierpont  Morgan  controls  $25,825,000,000. 

The  world's  stock  of  money  is  only  $8,815,700,000; 
$6,293,700,000  Gold 
$2,522,000,000  Silver. 

George  F.  Baker,  a  partner  of  Morgan,  also  testified  be- 
fore the  same  committee  that  there  is  no  Money  Trust. 

Surely  it  is  the  duty  of  somebody  to  indict  those  two 
bankers  on  a  charge  of  perjury;  a  poor  man  is  not  allowed 
to  perjure  himself  without   suffering  the   penalty. 

A  "system"  which  allows  the  possibility  of  such  abnormal 
beings  as  Morgan,  Baker  and  the  like,  is  in  direct  opposition 
to  the  ethics  of  Social  Justice. 

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On  the  4th  of  March  you  will  have  the  power  to  avert 
the  impending,  expected  bloody  revolution. 

Labor,  the  producers  of  all  the  wealth,  have  been  for 
ages,  longing  and  praying  for  a  Savior  to  rescue  them  from 
their  downtrodden  and  crushed  conditions,  often  exclaiming 
in  the  bitterness  of  their  souls:  How  long!  O  Lord!  how 
long? 

My  most  earnest  prayer  is  that  you  may  be  imbued  with 
the  moral  courage  commensurate  for  these  times,  the  most 
critical,  perhaps,  in  the  world's  history. 
Faithfully, 

J.  A.   KINGHORN-JONES. 

63d  Congress,  2d  Session 

XT       "D        I3S7I 

IN  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES 

February  25,  1914 

Mr.  J.  I.  Nolan   (by  request)   introduced  the  following 

bill ;  which  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Banking 

and  Currency  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 
A  BILL 
To  establish  a  Workers  Home  Board  for  the  purpose 

of  making  loans  to  workers  with  which  to  build  or 

buy  their  homes. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representa- 
tives of  the  United  States  of  America  in  Congress  assem- 
bled, that  there  be  and  is  hereby,  created  a  Workers  Home 
Board  for  the  purpose  of  making  loans  with  which  work- 
ers may  buy  their  homes.  Said  board  shall  consist  of  the 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  the  Attorney  General,  and  the 
Postmaster  General,  severally,  acting  ex-officio,  and  shall 
have  power  to  make  all  necessary  and  proper  regulations 
for  said  loans  and  repayments. 

The  board  shall  submit  a  report  to  Congress  at  the 
beginning  of  each  regular  session  showing  by  States  and 
Territories  the  amounts  loaned  and  the  repayments  on 
same. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  board  shall  provide  an  office  for  the 
Workers  Home  Board  and  appoint  a  superintendent,  at 
a  salary  of  $5,000  per  annum,  and  an  assistant  superin- 
tendent, at  a  salary  of  $4,000  per  annum,  and  such  addi- 
tional clerks  as  may  be  required. 

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Sec.  3.  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby 
directed  to  prepare  a  design  and  print  legal-tender  notes 
in  denominations  of  $1,  $5,  $10,  $50,  $100,  and  $1,000  to 
the  amount  of  $500,000,000,  or  such  an  amount  as  may 
be  needed. 

Sec.  4.  That  this  issue  is  to  bear  the  words  "Workers 
Homes  Greenback,''  "Good  for  all  debts,  public  and  pri- 
vate," and  to  bear  the  design  of  a  cottage  suitable  for  a 
worker,  and  such  other  embellishment  as  the  board  shall 
approve. 

Sec.  5.  That  loans  shall  be  of  the  amount  not  to  ex- 
ceed $2,500,  and  only  one  loan  shall  be  made  to  any  one 
'  person  and  to  not  more  than  one  member  of  a  family 
and  only  for  the  purpose  of  buying  or  building  a  home. 

Sec.  6.  That  loans  of  $2,500  shall  be  repaid  in  sums 
of  $20  each  month,  from  the  date  of  the  loan;  imme- 
diately after  the  one  hundred  and  twenty-sixth  payment, 
namely,  in  ten  and  a  half  years,  a  release  of  the  mort- 
gage shall  be  given  to  the  purchaser  by  the  mortgagee. 
Smaller  loans  to  be  repaid  in  corresponding  propor- 
tion to  the  foregoing. 

Sec.  7.  That  the  application  for  loans  must  be  made 
on  forms  which  the  board  will  provide  for  that  purpose, 
and  when  filled  must  be  accompanied  by  certificate  from 
the  county  assessor  in  whose  district  the  property  is 
situated,  stating  the  value  of  the  property,  if  the  house 
is  already  built:  or  if  to  be  built,  the  architect's  plan  and 
specifications,  also  the  contractor's  agreement  must  be 
passed  upon  by  the  assessor  as  to  the  value  of  the  pro- 
posed home  and  be  sent  with  the  application. 

Sec.  8.  That  the  assessor's  fee  for  his  foregoing- 
services  shall  be  $5,  to  be  paid  by  the  applicant. 

Sec.  9.  That  when  the  application  for  loan  is  ap- 
proved, a  mortgage  covering  the  property  upon  which 
said  loan  is  granted  shall  be  sent  to  a  money-order  post 
office  near  the  applicant's  address,  the  applicant  to  be 
notified  to  that  effect,  and  on  executing  the  mortgage,  an 

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order  will  be  given  to  the  mortgagor  on  the  Secretary  of 
the  Treasury  for  workers  homes  greenbacks  to  the 
amount  of  the  loan. 

Sec.  10.  That  repayments  may  be  made  to  any  post 
office  that  issues  money  orders. 

Sec.  11.  That  the  mortgages  to  contain  a  clause,  or 
a  printed  notice  attached  thereto,  stating,  "No  foreclosure 
proceedings  will  be  taken  until  after  the  mortgagee  is 
six  months  in  arrears  of  repayments.'' 

Sec.  12.  That  this  Act  is  to  be  in  force  as  soon  as  it 
is  passed. 

Many  will  object  because  no  interest  is  charged.  Are 
we  brothers?  but.  the  government  must  make  a  profit,  others 
will  say.  The  Post  Office  was  run  at  a  great  annual  loss  to 
the  people,  because  of  the  extortionate  railroad  charges 
allowed   by   Congress,   until   the*  Parcels   Post   was   adopted. 

The  Workers  Homes  Board  will  need  one  small  office 
in  Washington,  the  cost  of  officers  and  clerks  will  be  less 
than  $20,000  a  year,  a  total  of  $210,000  in  ten  and  a  half 
years;  $500,000,000  will  provide  200,000  loans  of  $2,500,  in 
ten  and  a  half  years  the  borrowers  pay  $2,520.  $20  multiplied 
by  200,000  is  $4,000,000,  deduct  the  cost,  leaves  $3,790,000 
more  than  self-supporting. 

Draw  a  mental  picture  of  1,500,000  HOMES  in  a  few 
years  as  the  result  of*  this  Bill,  with  $360,000,000  more  every 
year  for  food,  clothing,  education,  and  pleasure.  7,500,000 
souls  free  from  that  everlasting,  gnawing  dread,  which  baffles 
description,  of  losing  their  homes  through  foreclosure. 

It  is  impossible  to  estimate  the  increase  of  energy- 
power  and  good-will  for  the  nation  as  the  result  from  such 
conditions.  This  country  would  soon  become  celebrated  as 
the  land  of  "homes"  and  honesty,  in  place  of  its  present 
notoriety  for  mortgages  and  their  sequents,  millonaires, 
smaller  thieves,  grafters  and  tramps. 

Manufacture  and  business  could  not  be  dull;  the  capitalist 
lie  of  over-production  would  be  exposed  as  underconsump- 
tion. 

The  Workers  Homes  idea  combines  the  most  powerful 
influence  in  the  world — HOME — with  the  greatest  act  of 
the  greatest  man— ^LINCOLN— this  country  has  produced 
—GREENBACKS. 

Still  greater  benefits  will  follow! 

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AVOODKO^V  WH.iSON' 


^'e"bruary  4,  1913. 

My  dear  Mr ^^^  Jones: 

Allow  me  to  thank  you  most  warmly  for 
your  kind  letter*   I  appreoiato  it  very 
much  indeed. 

I  beg  to  asGiQ'e  you  that  the 
suggestion  you  make  will  "be  most  care- 
fully considered  and  I  thank  you  for  making 
it. 


Sincerely  yours , 


Mr .  J .  A .  Kinghom-  Jone  s , 
San  Prancisco ,  California 


Mi^^^r^z:^ 


Mr.  J.  A.  Kinghcrn- Jones, 

516  Mission  St. , 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

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The  English  government  has  loaned  $750,000,000  to  the 
Irish  peasants,  have  not  lost  a  penny,  and  the  advantages 
are  so  striking  that  one  of  the  Commissioners  who  visited 
Europe  to  study  industrial  relations,  reports  his  belief  that 
poor  down-trodden  Ireland  now  bids  fair  to  be  one  of  the 
richest,  per  capita,  countries  in  the  world,  as  the  result  of 
that  act  of  Social  Justice. 

Australia  and  New  Zealand  do  the  same  thing  on  a 
smaller  scale. 

The  Workers  Homes  Bill  surpasses  all  those,  because, 
the  money  those  countries  use,  already  existed,  this  Bill 
creates  money,  the  greatest  need  just  now,  money  that  would 
make  depression  and  panics  impossible. 

Owning  a  "home"  makes  a  better  citizen  than  a  mere 
birth  certificate*  or  naturalization   paper  will. 

Sir  Archibald  Alison,  in  his  history  of  Europe,  says: 
"The  suspension  of  specie  payment  by  the  Bank  of  England 
in  1797  led  to  the  use  of  an  enormous  amount  of  irredeem- 
able paper  money. 

"The  result  was  magical. 

"It  terminated  in  a  blaze  of  glory  and  a  flood  of  pros- 
perity which  has  never  before  or  since  the  beginning  of  the 
world  descended  on  any  nation. 

"Prosperity,  universal  and  unheard  of,  pervaded  every 
department  of  the  empire.  Agriculture,  manufactures  and 
commerce   increased  in   unparalleled   ratio. 

"The  landed  proprietors  were  in  affluence. 

"Wealth  to  an  unheard  of  extent  was  created  among 
the  farmers. 

"Our  exports,  imports  and  tonnage  more  than  doubled, 
and  the  conditon  of  the  people  was  one  of  extraordinary 
prosperity. 

"From  1797  to  1819  no  financial  embarrassment  of  any 
moment  was  experienced,  and  in  vain  Napoleon  waited  for 
the  stoppage  of  England's  financial  resources. 

"But  the  resumption  of  specie  payments  in  1819 — the 
change  of  the  financial  system  from  legal  tender  paper  to 
metal  money — ^was  ruinous  to  all  the  industries  of  England. 

"The  distress  became  insufferable,  and  in  Manchester 
60,00Q  men,  women  and  children  assembled,  demanding  blood 

/:  27   ■  .1 


or   bread;    and   many  of   the   people    were   killed   and   many- 
wounded  by  the  British  troops." 

E.  Benjamin  Andrews,  History  of  the  United  States,  Vol. 
IV,  pp.  170,171,  says:  "Treasury  notes  were  issued  and  made 
legal  tender  for  all  debts,  public  and  private,  which  bore  no 
interest,  commonly  known  as  greenbacks;  $433,000,000  were 
issued.  Millions  of  debt  and  half  the  other  economic  evils 
of  war  might  have  been  saved  by  doing  more  to  keep  the 
paper  dollar  on  a  par  with  gold."  (Bankers  wink  the  off-eye 
when   reading  the  suggestion  of  Professor  Andrews. — K.-J.) 

The  following  appeared  in  the  "London  Times:"  'Tf  that 
mischievous  financial  policy  which  had  its.  origin  in  the  North 
American  republic  during  the  civil  war  in  that  country  should 
become  indurated  down  to  a  fixture,  then  that  government 
will  furnish  money  without  cost.  It  will  pay  off  its  debt  and 
be  without  a  debt,  (how  wicked  not  to  pay  usury  to  England 
— K-J.).  it  will  have  all  the  money  necessary  to  carry  on  its 
commerce.  It  will  become  prosperous  beyond  precedent  in 
the  history  of  the  civilized  governments  of  the  world.  The 
brains  and  wealth  of  all  countries  will  go  to  North  America. 
That  government  must  be  destroyed,  or  it  will  destroy  every 
monarchy  on   this  globe." 

This  has  been  accomplished;  the  United  States  can  no 
longer  bocst  of  being  a  republic,  or  a  democracy — IT  IS 
AN   OLIGARCHY. 

Arthur  Kitson  in  the  London  "Clarion,"  27  November, 
1914,  says:  "Our  Bank  Rate  jumped  to  10  per  cent  in  one 
day — higher  than  it  has  been  in  France,  Germany,  or  Austria, 
just  before  or  since  the  war.  Every  bank  suspended  pay- 
ment, the  gold  basis  collapsed,  and,  but  for  the  common 
sense  of  the  Chancellor  in  supporting  the  banks  with  the 
NATIONAL  CREDIT,  the  whole  financial  and  industrial 
structure  would  have  come  tumbling  down  into  the  mire. 
Possibly  we  may  today  be  able,  to  create  some  public  interest 
where  we  have  hitherto  failed;  at  any  rate,  it  is  well  worth 
the  effort.  The  lesson  to  drive  into  the  heads  of  the  com- 
munity from  what  has  happened  is  the  fact  that  the  SO- 
CALLED  GOLD  BASIS  IS  A  DELUSION  AND  A  SNARE 
—A  LEGALIZED  FRAUD,  USED  TO  ENABLE  THE 
FINANCIAL  CLASSES  TO  CONTROL  AND  TAX  THE 
INDUSTRIAL  CLASSES." 


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Extracts  from  a  whole  page  editorial  illustrated  in  colors 
in  the  Sunday  Examiner,  San  Francisco,  July  13,  1913,  headed 

THE    MYSTERIOUS    MONEY    GOD 

''The    Government   today   scatters   its   money   this   way. 

"It  gives  the  money  to  private  bankers,  estimable  gentle- 
men individually,  but  polite  and  'legal'  usurers  in  reality. 

"The  banker  owns  a  government  bond,  upon  which  the 
government  pays  him  three  or  four  per  cent,  and  against 
this  bond  which  pays  him  interest  the  government  permits 
him  to  issue  currency  which  is  'REAL  MONEY.'  And  the 
banker  loans  this  currency  to  the  business  man  for  five  or 
six  per  cent,  and  to  the  farmer  for  eight  or  ten  or  twelve 
per  cent,  so  that  he  gets  three  or  four  per  cent  from  the 
government  on  his  own  money  invested  in  bonds,  and  at 
the  same  time  he  gets  from  the  government  the  right  to 
duplicate  the  bonds  in  the  shape  of  currency  and  to  loan  it 
out  at  usurious  rates  to  the  public. 

"It  may  not  be  possible  for  the  mind  of  man  to  under- 
stand money  and  its  meaning.  But  the  mind  of  man  which 
is  not  able  to  understand  electricity,  is  at  least  able  to  USE 
it  intelligently. 

"And  man  will  eventually  use  money  intelligently,  and 
the  people  will  borrow  from  the  government  (that  is  to  say, 
from  themselves  direct)  at  a  fair  rate  of  interest,  and  get 
away  from  the  system  of  twenty-odd  thousand  bankers,  each 
one  personally  a  very  honest,  estimable  bloodsucker,  getting 
all  the  interest  and  profit  possible  in  times  of  prosperity, 
and  the  first  to  yell  murder  and  shut  his  front  door  in 
times  of  panic. 

"We  don't  know  anything  about  electricity,  but  we  know 
how  to  get  it  out  of  Niagara  Falls  and  send  it  where  it  is 
needed. 

"We  don't  know  anything  about  money.  But  we  *OUGHT 
to  know  enough  to  make  it  our  servant  instead  of  it  being 
our  master'." 

If  William  Randolph  Hearst  really  wishes  to  benefit 
humanity,  he  will  advocate  the  Workers  Homes  Bill  in  all  his 
powerful  papers  and  magazines,  he  has  the  power  to  show 
the  people  the  importance  of  the  measure,  atid  carry  it,  thus 
saving  the  workers  from  the  sin  of  allowing  themselves  to 
be  robbed  on  every  exchange  they  make,  if  money  enters 
the  tr-ansaction. 

2^ 


THE  PEOPLE 

HAVE  THE 

FIRST  USE  OF 

GOVERNMENT  POSTAGE 

STAMPS 


THE  PEOPLE 

DEMAND  THE 

FIRST  USE  OF 

GOVERNMENT  MONEY 

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BY  WHAT 

RIGHT  OF  REASON 

DO 

BANKERS 

HAVE  THE 

FIRST  USE  OF 
GOVERNMENT 

MONEY 

This  is  the  CANCER  that  is  EATING 
the  VITALS  of  the  NATION. 

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Congressman  Charles  A.  Lindbergh  has  done  splendid 
work  for  the  nation  in  forcing  through  Congress  the  investi- 
gation of  the  Money  Trust  and  laying  bare  some  of  their 
innermost  secrets,  he  has  still  further  benefited  the  workers 
by  publishing  ''The  Money  Trust"  (paper  50c,  cloth  $1.00, 
Little  Falls,  Minn.) ;  he  proves  that  our  "money  system"  is 
the  robber  of  Labor.  He  saj^s  the  banks,  through  the  Clear- 
ing House  Association,  use  only  $47.80  of"  actual  cash  for 
each  $1,000,000  they  handle,  so  that  workers  are  paying 
USURY  on  $999,952,20  non-existing  money  in  each  $1,000,000! 

"Uncle  Sam  Our  Banker  and  Employer"  by  F.  E.  Rey- 
nolds, M.D.,  2935  Market  Street,  Oakland,  California,  25 
cents,  is  a  masterpiece,  a  most  lucid,  logical  exposure  of 
the  gold-standard-crime.  Cloth  bound  copies,  large  type, 
should  be  in  every  university,  high  school  and  library,  as  a 
reliable  text  book  on  the  question  of  legal  tender,  because 
that  is  the  weakest  part  in  the  education  of  the  rising  genera- 
tion;  the   following  are   some   pertinent   extracts: 

"If  then  the  stamp  of  our  sovereignty  can  and  does  make 
legal  tender,  why  should  a  great  Nation  like  this,  with  all 
its  resources  and  wealth  untold,  allow  trade  and  commerce 
to  be  literally  paralyzed,  for  want  of  sufficient  legal  tender 
to  carry  on  labor,  the  great  and  only  producer  of  all  wealth. 
Why  suffer  such  dire  calamity,  when  we  possess  boundless 
resources  of  vast  wealth?  Resources  when  but  manipulated 
by  the  co-operative  and  specialized  hands  of  labor  will  yield 
in  abundance,  all  the  necessaries  and  luxuries  of  life  that 
man  can  desire." 

"No  people  can  be  free,  who  permit,  by  any  process, 
their  wealth  to  be  controlled  by  a  minority  of  their  citizens." 

"This  intrinsic,  costly,  metal-monetary  system  is  the  foun- 
tain-source of  every  physical  ill  now  affecting  society,  and 
bankruptcy,  panics,  tramps,  suicides,  homicides,  infanticide, 
insanity,  divorce  and  sequent  revolution  are  ever  the  fruitage 
of  this  vile  system  of  single  standard,  gold  money,  main- 
tained and  sanctioned  by  so-called  politicians  and  commer- 
cial shylocks." 

The  Anti-Usury  League,  17  5th  St.,  S.  E.,  Washington, 
D.  C.  "The  purpose  and  work  is  to  expose  the  evils,  the 
oppressions,  the  fraud  and  the  sin  of  usury  or  interest, 
by  publication,  by  lectures,  by  conventions  and  every  other 
practical   method." 

The  League  have  published  a  very  powerful  work  on 
"USURY"   by   J.    Calvin    Elliott,   300   p.p.,   cloth   bound,   $1. 

The  Land  Currency  League,  214  Kettridge  Building,  Den- 
ver, Colo.,  James  D.  Holden,  Secretary,  has  published  "The 

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Distributing   Factor   in    Human   Affairs"   post-paid   25c;    the 
following  are  some  of  its  many  convincing  arguments: 

"Our  currency  system  is  one  thing,  our  banking  system 
another.  Thej^  should  not  be  confounded,  but  should  be  con- 
sidered separately.  Our  banking  system  exists  only  be- 
cause of  our  imperfect  currency  system. 

"The  essential  defect  of  our  currency  system  is  a  currency 
deficit  exceeding  the  enormous  sum  of  sixteen  thousand  mil- 
lion dollars  (about  $160  per  capita),  as  shown  by  a  correct 
interpretation  of  the  latest  report  of  the  comproller  of  the 
currency. 

"The  defects  of  our  banking  system  are  due  to  this  dearth 
of  government  money." 

Henry  P.  Lason,  De  Funiak  Springs,  Fla.,  has  drafted 
a  petition  for  THE  PAPER  MONEY  COINAGE  ACT  OF 
THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA,  and  will  send  the 
proposed  law  and  petition  to  anyone  who  will  write  for  it; 
he  says:  "it  will  prevent  the  panic  upon  the  one  hand  and 
will  establish  a  system  of  scientific,  constitutional  money, 
that  shall  fill,  and  not  rob,  the  treasury  of  its  ownership  of 
said  money  on  the  other  hand.' 

The  definite  demands  of  the  Coxey  Army  is  that  govern- 
ment issues  legal  tender  money  direct  to  the  people  on  real- 
estate  and  chattel  property. 

The  Anti-Usury  League;  the  Land  Currency  League;  The 
petitions  for  Paper  Money  are  doing  grand  work  in  directing 
attention  to,  and  exposing,  the  curse  of  humanity,  the  vital 
question  of  all  past  ages,  but  nine-tenths  of  the  workers  will 
dismiss  their  arguments,  conclusive  as  they  are,  in  favor  of 
the  producers,  with  such  brief  expressions  as  the  following: 

I  don't  pay  any  USURY,  I  haven't  borrowed  any  money. 

I've  got  no  land  to  get  currency  with. 

How  could  I  get  the  paper  money? 

Whereas  the  Workers  Homes  Bill  appeals  to  every 
worker,  as  immediate  or  prospective  help  in  their  life  and 
death   struggle. 

Woodrow  Wilson  recently  said,  in  an  interview  with 
Samuel  Blythe  on  the  Mexican  situation: 

"I  challenge  you  to  cite  me  an  instance  in  all  the  history 
of  the  world  where  liberty  was  handed  down  from  above! 
Liberty  always  is  attained  by  the  forces  working  below, 
underneath,  by  the  great  movement  of  the  people.  That, 
leavened  by  the  sense  of  wrong  and  oppression  and  injustice, 
by  the  ferment  of  human  rights  to  be  attained,  brings 
freedom." 

In  other  words,  a  dog  does  not,  with  a  polite  "if  you 
please,"  ask  the  fleas  to  get  off  his  back,  he  knows  the  first 

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law  of  nature,  HE  SCRATCHES  THEM  OFF:  it  is  about 
time  we  take  a  few  lessons  from  ants,  bees,  monkeys  and 
dogs  on  the  first  principles  of  economics  and  sociology,  be- 
cause our  "professors"  of  those  sciences  do  not  know  the 
true  base  on  which  to  found  their  teachings,  or,  if  they  do 
know,  they,  like  Talleyrand,  consider  language  is  for  the 
purpose  of  concealing  the  truth,  so  they  hide  the  truth  and 
teach  errors  for  the  express  purpose  of  keeping  the  produc- 
ing class  in  a  state  of  hopeless  subjection;  we  harbor  no  ill 
feeling  against  our  parasites  but  are  most  determined  to  be 
rid  of  them;  we  do  not  even  wish  to  harm  or  punish  them; 
we  will  first  show  how  they  can  become  respectable  vege- 
tarians, or,  if  they  must  be  meat-eaters,  how  they  can  raise 
their  own  beef,  pork,  and  mutton,  but  the  time  has  now 
come  when  they  shall  no  longer  feed  on  children,  women 
and  men. 

Dr.  John  Graham  Brooks,  Professor  of  Economics  and 
Sociology,  University  of  California,  after  several  earnest 
appeals  for  his  opinion  of  the  Workers  Homes  Bill,  wrote. 

"Your  scheme  is  not  one  with  which  I  have  any  sym- 
pathy. That  *Labor  is  the  true  standard  of  value'  (quoted 
from  the  letter  to  him)  I  believe  to  be  not  only  an  error, 
but  a  very  mischievous  one,  I  should  also  be  very  sorry  to 
see  the  special  financial  scheme  tried — as  you  suggest — as 
I  believe  it  would  do  harm  rather  than  good." 

He  says:  "Labor  is  not  the  true  standard  of  value."  Fruits, 
nuts,  vegetables  that  grow  wild,  without  the  aid  of  man; 
fish  in  seas  and  rivers;  birds  and  animals,  are  all  useless  to 
man  unless  the  labor  of  gathering,  catching  and  preparing 
for  food  is  performed;  labor  makes  them  useful,  labor  makes 
them  of  value;  it  follows  that  the  time  used  in  such  work 
should  be  a  factor  in  the  various  values;  so  labor  is  the 
standard  of  value  and  one  hour  of  work  useful  to  humanity- 
should  be,  in  fact  is,  the  unit  of  value;  on  that  basis  if  the 
coinage  were  simply  changed  from  dollars  to  hours,  an 
equitable  exchange  of  labor,  would  be  effected,  with  the  result 
that  none  of  the  medium  of  exchange  would  get  into  the 
claws  of  parasites! 

As  he  suggests  no  other  standard  of  value  in  place  of 
labor,  it  is  presumed  that  he  approves  of  the  present  gold 
standard,  which  is  no  standard  for  anything  except  extortion 
—robbery.  Gold  varies  in  value  more  than  anything  else,  the 
rates  of  exchange  all  over  the  world  prove  that;  one  man 
can  borrow  at  2  per  cent,  another  will  be  forced  to  pay  20 
per  cent  or  say  50  per  cent — during  the  Civil  War  the  bankers 
demanded  36  per  cent  from  the  Government  for  gold.  Mer- 
chants during  that  period  had  to  pay  185  per  cent  for  gold 
with  which  to  pay  import  duties,  because  of  the  bankers'  "ex- 

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ception"  clause  on  the  greenbacks — a  scheme  to  rob — they 
had  cornered  the  gold. 

An  elastic  yard  measure  would  be  as  good  a  standard 
for  length  as  gold  is  of  value. 

A  sponge,  three  by  three,  would  make  as  good  a  standard 
of  weight,  as  gold  is  of  value,  if  the  sponge  were  taken  from 
the  sea  and  used  for  weighing  purposes  and  the  next  day 
exposed  to  the  sun's  rays  at  100  degrees,  and  then  again 
used  as  the  standard  weight. 

For  the  benefit  of  the  professor  of  Economics  and  Soci- 
ology let  us  compress  twelve  books  of  philosophy  to  twelve 
lines. 

1.  Land  and  time  were  not  made  by  man. 

2.  Land  and  time  are  for  the  use  of  all  mankind. 

3.  Man  has  no  property  rights  in  land  and  time. 

4.  Use  of  land  and  time  creates  value. 

5.  Values  belong  to  those  ^ho  used  time. 

6.  Time  improved  by  brawn  or  brain  is  Labor. 

7.  Labor  'is  the  only  true  standard  of  value. 

8.  One  hour  of  useful  work  is  the  unit  of  value. 

9.  Change  "dollar'  to  hour  and  we  have  social  justice. 

10.  The  hour  medium  of  exchange  could  not  get  into  the 

claws  of  parasites; 

11.  "The    land    shall    not    be    sold    forever." — Leviticus, 

xxv-23. 

12.  Land  could  not  be  bought  under  the  labor-standard 

of  value. 

Financiers  and  savants  cannot  upset  this  reasoning,  they 
may  object  to  it  being  put  into  practice,  because  it  has  not 
yet  been  adopted  in  Mars! 

The  "system" — gold  and  church — has  so  degraded  the 
human  race,  that  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1915  we  can  only 
think  in  dollars. 

THE  CAMPANILE  on  the  campus  of  the  University  of  Cal- 
ifornia reflects  great  discredit  on  the  President  and  Regents 
for  allowing  such  a  gross  exhibition  of  plundered  wealth  to 
spread  it  baneful  influence  over  the  students;  it  is  a  monu- 
ment of  $200,000  extorted  from  workers'  sweat,  blood  and 
lives  through  USURY,  by  a  banker;  its  proper  place  is  in  a 
cemetery;  it  is  useless,  although  it  might  have  been  utilized 
for  many  class  rooms,  its  beauty  is  questionable,  it  is  a  copy, 
no    originality. 

The  "In  Memoriam"  tablet  might  read: 
Sacred  to  the  memory  of 

Banker 

at  a  cost  of  $200,000 — a  small  modicum  of  his  immense  fortune 

stolen  from  the  workers  by  USURY — the  curse  of  the  world. 

GO  THOU  AND  DO  LIKEWISE 

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It  would  take  you  three  score  years  and  ten  to  earn 
$200,000  at  $10  a  day,  therefore  steal  and  get-rich-quick, 
leave  useful  work  to  fools  who  are  robbed  of  eight-tenths 
of  the  products  of  their  LABOR  by  USURY. 

If  the  widow  had  the  idea  of  restitution,  then  it  shoula 
have  been  returned  to  the  class  from  which  it  had  been 
taken,  it  would  have  provided  one  hundred  $2,000  homes, 
allowing  the  workers  to  pay  rent  and  when  the  rent  paid 
reached  the  cost,  the  deeds  to  be  given;  the  rents  each 
month  being  used  to  provide  more  homes,  that  would  have 
become  a  blessing  to   thousands. 

Our  Presidents  sometimes  refer  to  themselves  as  the 
servants  of  the  people;  that  is  introductory  to  saying,  our 
servants  the  Congressmen,  have  recently  raised  their  own 
salaries  to  $7,500  a  year,  and  work  hand  in  hand  with  the 
bankers  to  keep  the  incomes  of  the  overwhelming  majority 
of  the  people,  under  $500  per  annum — the  servants  help 
themselves  out  of  their  masters'  pockets,  then  use  their  time 
in  diverting  money  from  the  producers  of  wealth  into  the 
maws  of  the  bankers,  who  produce  positively  nothing  but 
crime,  poverty,  prostitution  and  war. 

The  Federal  Reserve  Bank  Bill  contains  over  15,000 
words. 

The   Workers   Homes   Bill   contains  less   than   700  words. 

The  Federal  Reserve  Bill  cannot  be  understood  by  any- 
one except  bankers,  and  lawyers  of  the  Philadelphia  type,  it 
is  an  exhibition  of  chicanery,  an  illustration  of  the  methods 
of  "confidence  men"  and  "four  fiushers;''  it  is  the  most  flag- 
rant betrayal  of  the  workers  into  the  hands  of  the  bankers 
that  has  ever  been  perpetrated  in  this  country.  It  is  uncon- 
stitutional, Congress  has  no  power  to  thus  hand  over  the 
producers  as  slaves  to  the  bankers. 

The  Workers  Homes  Bill  breathes  truth  and  honesty  in 
each  of  its  few  words,  and  is  understood  by  all  who  can  read. 

Without  doubt  Woodrow  Wilson  thought  he  would  be 
able  to  curb  the  money-trust,  he  has  found  he  cannot. 

Representative  Lindbergh  of  Minnesota  charged  in  open 
congress  that  "money  trust  managers  and  their  agents  were 
selected  to  control  the  several  federal  reserve  banks." 

William  Jennings  Bryan  when  running  for  oflfice,  as  a 
vote  catcher,  was  crying  aloud:  "How  long  shall  Labor  be 
crucified    on    the    Cross    of    gold;"    contrast    that    with    the 

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Chautauqua  lecturer  giving  the  money-trust  a  new  lease  on 
the  Gold  Standard! 

The  Cabinet  and  Committee  on  Banking  and  Currency  in 
particular,  and  Congress  in  general,  are  traitors  to  the 
Commonwealth,  they  are  simply  rubber  stamps  in  the  hands 
of  the  money-trust;  it  is  beyond  our  power  of  imagination 
to  conceive  what  demoniac  power  has  been  used  to  bring 
them  into  subjection. 

President  Lincoln  signed  the  exception  clause  bill  under 
a  threat  from  the  representatives  of  English  and  American 
bankers,  that  if  he  refused,  they  would  finance  the  Con- 
federacy. Secretary  Chase  who  witnessed  the  signing  of 
this  bill  stated  shortly  afterwards  at  a  dinner  party  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  that  when  Mr.  Lincoln  had  signed  the  bill 
he  threw  the  pen  as  far  as  he  could  send  it,  accompanied 
with  epithets,  anything  but  complimentary  to  the  bankers. 
A  gentleman  living  in  New  York  City  was  present  at  the 
dinner   and    heard    Mr.    Chase    relate    this    incident. 

Col.  Archie  C.  Fish,  New  York,  is  the  authority  for  above. 

Immediately  after  the  Workers  Homes  Bill  is  passed,  all 
farmers*  mortgages  should  be  taken  over  by  the  government 
by  another  issue  of  legal-tender. 

The  United  Workers  should  then  issue  their  final  ultima- 
tum of  complete  freedom  from  the  money-power;  three 
simple  acts  will  solve  the  problem: 

1st  Act.  Wire  instructions  to  all  the  European  powers 
to  send  in  all  the  claims  of  all  their  subjects  for  all  bonds 
or  shares  or  property  of  any  kind  in  the  United  States^  as 
the  inhabitants  had  decided  to  own  all  therein  and  thereon. 

2nd  Act.  Place  a  notice  at  each  postoffice,  that  in  ninety 
days  from  date  all  the  present  metal  money  will  be  illegal, 
but  up  to  that  time  it  will  be  received  in  exchange  for  the 
new,  non-interest-bearing  paper  medium  of  exchange  and 
subsidiary  coin. 

3rd  Act.  Send  the  gold  and  silver  to  Europe  to  pay  all 
claims,  making  up  the  balance  in  our  new,  righteous  tool  of 
exchange,  with  the  announcement  that  the  paper  money  will 
be  accepted  in  payment  of  our  goods,  also,  that  we  had  set 
our  3,000,000  dis-employed,  our  14,000,000  unemployed  drones, 
our  40,000,000  uselessly  employed  to  work,  manufacturing 
and  producing  goods  for  the  various  European  markets. 

That  will  be  as  simple,  honest  and  logical  as  the  present 
plan  of  allowing  England  to  dominate  this  country  through 
the  gold-standard  is  complicated,   dishonest  and  illogical. 

This  step  would  at  once  make  the  workers  richer  by  about 
n,000,000  annually. 

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The  lying  capitalists  and  their  mendacious  press  boast 
of  the  advent  of  European  capital  into  this  country,  wickedly 
concealing  the  fact  that  it  means  the  American  workers 
are  to  toil  and  sweat  and  die  to  create  dividends  for  aliens; 
a  favorite  topic  of  the  press  is  the  large  amount  of  exporta- 
tion over  importations,  calling  it  the  "balance  of  trade  in 
our  favor." 

Lloyd  George  the  English  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer 
said  in  the  House  of  Commons  on  29  November,  1914,  the 
United  States  debts  to  England  aggregate  $5,000,000,000— 
five  billion  dollars — the  American  bankers  at  once  denied  it; 
they  deny  or  befog  all  truth  as  to  our  financial  confusion. 

That  English  debt,  which  means  investments  at  only 
ten  per  cent  amounts  to  $500,000,000  out  of  workers*  pockets; 
we  are  about  to  compel  government  to  issue  constitutional 
money  direct  to  the  people  for  HOMES,  just  the  amount 
of  the   English-gold-standard   robbery   for   one  .year. 

The  exports  from  the  United  States  to  Europe  in  1913, 
including  gold  and  silver,  was  over  $800,000,000  in  excess  of 
our  imports,  thus  proving  Lloyd  George's  statement  to  be 
correct,  with  about  $3,000,000,000  debts  to  other  European 
nations— $800,000,000,  10  per  cent  on  $8,000,000,000.  The 
excess  of  exports  over  imports  is  referred  to  by  the  sub- 
sidized press  and  capitalists  as  proof  of  our  prosperity, 
whereas  it  shows  to  what  an  alarming  extent  this  country 
is  being  drained  of  its  wealth  through  USURY. 

MONKEYS—MEN.  Those  who  accept  Darwin's  theory 
of  man's  descent  from  monkeys  must  admit  that  the  descent 
has  been,  from  th'e  ethical  standpoint  of  monkeys,  awfully 
low  and  degrading,  it  not  being  the  law  or  custom  of  their 
societies  that  certain  of  their  fraternities  should  be  com- 
pelled to  gather  ten  cocoanuts,  and  take  nine  of  them  to 
another  monkey,  before  the  gatherer  would  be  allowed  to 
retain  peaceable  possession  of  the  remaining  one  cocoanut 
for  his  own  use. 

Christians  today  would  see  more  brotherly  love  and  less 
selfishness  among  a  tribe  of  monkeys  than  can  be  found  in 
any  church  in  Christendom. 

Christian  civilization  has  made  man  the  most  greedy  of 
all  animals.  The  lion  does  not  go  on  killing  day  and  night, 
week  days,  Sundays,  holidays,  all  days,  as  Christian  usury 
does — the  noble  lion  kills  only  to  satisfy  his  needs — ignoble 
Christians  go  on  coining  money  out  of  the  blood  and  lives 
of  their  brothers  and  sisters,  after  their  needs  are  provided 
for,  millions  upon  millions  of  times  over. 

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No  four-legged  hog  attempts  to  corner  all  the  "swill"  of 
a  country  side;  he  takes  a  large  quantity,  it  is  true,  but  he 
does  arrive  at  a  satisfied  point;  our  greedy  two-legged  hogs 
never  do  that;  they  control  the  food,  the  clothing,  the  oil, 
the  iron,  and  the  coal  of  the  world  by  the  aid  of  their 
Christian-usury-drawing-gold — the  standard  of  the  values  of 
the  human  bodies  and  souls,  if  the  bodies  may  happen  to 
have  souls. 

Christians  agreeing  with  Darwin  must  also  logically  admit 
that  their  God — the  Almighty — the  Eternal — the  Always  Was 
— murdered  his  son  to  save  monkeys,  as  well  as  their  de- 
graded descendants — men. 

•  If  the  aim  of  existence  is  to  obtain  the  greatest  happiness, 
then  the  monkeys  are  to  be  envied;  if,  on  the  other  hand, 
it  is  to  reach  the  heights  and  depths  of  folly,  man  has 
reached  that  most  pitiable  condition. 

Monkeys  have  no  money,  and  there  lies  the  secret. 

Money  is  the  root  of  all  evil;  you  may  have  heard  this 
before,  but  if  you  were  forced  when  young  to  attend  church, 
you  know  the  parsons  put  "the  love  of"  before  "money" — 
falsely  stating  that  money  is  good,  only  the  love  of  it  is 
the  devil.  Nevertheless,  Christian  civilization  has  com- 
manded that,  those  who  love  life — who  follow  the  first  law 
of  nature — shall  love  money. 

There  is  only  one  question  before  the  world  today — 
MONEY — the  summum  bonum — the  necessity-of-life — the 
CHRIST;  for  this  men  and  women  lie,  cheat,  steal,  murder; 
from  lack  of  it  suicide  what  man  is  goes  for  naught,  DOL- 
LARS are  now  the  only  mark  of  worth. 

BEES— MEN.  Bees  that  gorge  all  day  and  return  with- 
out any  honey  for  the  hive,  lack  the  spirit  of  the  hive,  they 
are  not  co-operators,  but  selfish,  greedy  insects,  not  worthy 
of  space  in  the  hive,  and  are  therefore  killed,  according  to 
the  law  of  the  hive.    THIS  IS  A  LABOR  UNION. 

Rockefeller,  Morgan,  Carnegie  and  that  ilk  do  not  con- 
tribute a  cent  to  the  Human  Hive,  but,  on  the  contrary,  steal 
all  the  products  of  the  Human  Bees — barring  just  enough  to 
keep  them  workable.  THIS  IS  THE  MONEY  TRUST; 
Practically  the  only  Trust,  all  others  are  subsidiary. 

NATURAL  AND  MAN-MADE  LAW.  By  natural  law 
a  magnet  draws  all  the  steel  filings  to  itself  that  are  within 
the  range  of  its  influence,  and  having  done  so  it  does  not 
increase  its  power  to  attract  more  metal;  it  has,  in  fact, 
satiated  its  power  of  attraction. 

By  an  unnatural  law,  gold  is  given  the  power  of  usury, 
by  which  it  draws  other  gold  to  itself,  and  with  each  addi- 

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tion,  it  increases  its  power,  at  an  ever  increasing  ratio,  to 
draw  a  still  larger  amount  of  gold  to  itself,  so  that  it  logi- 
cally follows  that  all  the  bullion  and  coined  gold  in  the 
world  must  be  drawn  into  the  possession  of  one  combine, 
or  trust,  which  can  issue  paper  money  on  their  own  securities 
and  hoard  the  gold. 

Natural  law  is  that  everyone  shall  Labor  to  the  best  of 
their  ability,  for  their  own  good,  and  therefore  for  the 
good  of  the  community. 

Unnatural  usury  laws  allow  the  few  to  live  on  the  Labor 
of  others. 

If  nature's  laws  are  broken,  the  penalty  has  to  be  paid; 
there  is  no  way  of  dodging  it,  like  the  rich  do  their  taxes; 
keep  near  to   Nature  if  you  desire  happiness. 

GOLD  PRODUCTIONS 

20,000,000  brothers  and  sisters  in  poverty. 
1,750,000  children   slaving  in  factories  and  mines. 
5,000,000  women  slaving  for  a  bare  living. 
300,000  women  prostitutes. 
30,000,000  men  prostitutes — thinking,  talking,  working  for 

dollars  only. 
15,000,000  men   wage-slaves. 

2,000,000  dis-employed — not  allowed  to   earn  a  living. 
20,000,000  un-employed  parasites,  living  on  the  workers. 
Farm    mort-gages   increased    17.7   per   cent   from    1900   to 

1910. 
Stocks  and  Bonds  increased  in  20  years  from  $200,000,000 

to   $20,000,000,000. 
On   which   everybody — even   if  they  only  eat — has   to  pay 
dividends— USURY. 

On  7  September,  1903,  President  Roosevelt  in  a  speech  at 
Syracuse,  said: 

"It  is  all-essential  to  the  continuance  of  our  healthy  na- 
tional life  that  we  should  recognize  this  community  of  inter- 
est among  our  people. 

"The  welfare  of  each  of  us  is  dependent,  fundamentally, 
upon  the  w^elfare  of  all  of  us,  and  therefore,  in  public  life, 
that  man  is  the  best  representative  of  each  of  us  who  seeks 
to  do  good  to  each  by  doing  good  to  all;  in  other  words, 
whose  endeavor  it  is,  not  to  represent  any  special  class  and 
promote  merely  that  class'  selfish  interests,  but  to  represent 
all  true  and  honest  men  of  all  sections  and  all  classes,  and 
to  work  for  their  interests  by  working  for  our  common 
country." 

Shortly  before  this  he  had  given  out  most  grandiloquently 
to  the  press:  "I  have  $40,000,000  in  the  Treasury  with  which 

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to  relieve  the  money  stringency"  (It  has  been  gaining  in 
stringency  ever  since.) 

On  the  9th  September,  the  Workers  Homes  plan  of  cir- 
culating the  $40,000,000,  showing  how  it  would  benefit — as 
a  beginning — 16,000  families,  how  it  would  be  more  than 
self-supporting,  the  benefits  that  would  accrue  to  the  nation, 
was  suggested  for  the   "interests   of   our   common  country." 

On  9  September  and  1  December,  Roosevelt's  attention 
was  again  called  to  the  fact  that  this  disposition  of  the 
$40,000,000  would  "do  good  to  all;"  none  of  these  communi- 
cations were  answered;  but  the  man  who  out-barnum's-Bar- 
num,  gave  the  $40,000,000  of  the  people's  money  to  a  few 
of  his  favorite  banks — in  fact  to  those  who  had  put  him  in 
the  White  House — without  interest,  for  them  to  lend  to  the 
people — whose  money  it  was — at  highest  USURY  they 
could  extort — "one  class'  selfish  interests." 

New  York,  January  29,  1915. — Coming  direct  from  a  con- 
ference with  John  D.  Rockefeller  Jr.  today,  John  R.  Lawson, 
head  of  the  Miners.'  Union  in  Colorado,  made  a  dramatic 
denunciation  of  the  young  millionaire  before  the  Federal 
Industrial    Commission. 

"I  say  to  your  honorable  body,"  he  cried,  "that  you  can 
well  afford  to  let  the  testimony  of  John  D.  Rockefeller  Jr. 
bring  your  investigation  to  an  end.  Out  of  his  mouth  came 
a  reason  for  every  discontent  that  agitates  the  laboring  class 
of   the   United   States   today. 

"His  philanthropy  consists  of  health  for  China,  refuge  for 
birds,  food  for  the  Belgians,  pensions  for  New  York  widows, 
university  training  for  the  elect — and  never  a  thought  or  a 
dollar  for  thousands  of  men,  women  and  children  who 
starved  in  Colorado,  for  the  widows  robbed  of  husbands, 
children  of  their  fathers.  There  are  thousands  of  Mr.  Rocke- 
feller's ex-employes  in  Colorado  who  wish  to  God  they  were 
in  Belgium  to  be  fed  or  a  bird  to  be  tenderly  cared  for. 

"It  is  a  matter  of  undisputed  record  that  a  mercenary 
militia,  paid  openly  by  the  mine  operators,  crushed  this  strike 
by  the  bold  violation  of  every  known  constitutional  right 
that  the  citizen  was  thought  to  possess.  Men  were  herded 
in  bull  pens  like  cattle;  homes  were  shattered;  the  writ  of 
habeas  corpus  was  suspended;  hundreds  were  loaded  on  cars 
and  dumped  into  the  desert  without  food  or  water;  others 
were  driven  over  the  snow  of  the  mountain  ranges  and  when 
there  came  a  thing  called  peace  the  blacklist  gave  6,000  miners 
the  choice  between  starvation  and  exile. 

"There  is  no  social  life  in  the  camps,  the  companies  own 
all  the  houses,  ground,  schools,  churches  and  stores.  Com- 
plete despotism   exists  in  the  mining  camps." 

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GREENBACKS  or  SCRIP  versus  BONDS 

Postmaster-General  Burleson  proposes  the  government 
take  the  entire  telegraph  and  telephone  service  of  the  Nation, 
that  is  very  good. 

The  estimated  cost  of  doing  this  is  $900,000,000,  and  Post- 
master Burleson  proposes  to  issue  BONDS  for  that  amount, 
this  is  v€ry  bad. 

BONDS  for  $900,000,000  would  be  at  least  $45,000,000 
more  annual  robbery  of  WORKERS. 

GREENBACKS  for  $900,000,000  would  save  WORKERS 
$45,000,000  annually,  it  would  also  relieve  the  money  strin- 
gency now  so  exceedingly  acute;  all  business  and  manufac- 
ture would  immediately  revive  to  unprecedented  activity. 
The  $900,000,000  would  never  be  idle,  no  one  could  corner  it, 
panics  could  not  be  manipulated. 

Further,  it  will  cost  less  to  print  the  GREENBACKS  than 
to  engrave  the  BONDS.  Only  a  trivial  matter,  but  in  favor 
of  GREENBACKS. 

GREENBACKS  would  benefit  about  99,950,000  PEOPLE 
BONDS  would  benefit  about 50,000  SHYLOCKS 

If  GREENBACKS  are  issued,^  the  annual  profit  from  the 
telegraph  and  telephone  lines — without  any  USURY — would 
be  enormous  and  would  thus  further  benefit  WORKERS  by 
reducing  the  Federal  taxes — lest  you  forget,  WORKERS  also 
pay  all  taxes,  do  not  dispute  that,  WORKERS  PRODUCE 
ALL  WEALTH. 

Act  and  save  the  nation  by  forcing  Government  issues  of 
money  DIRECT  TO  THE  USERS  WITHOUT  USURY. 
The  present  "system"  compels  everyone  who  works,  yes 
everyone  who  eats,  to  contribute  to  the  wealth  of  some 
banker! 

The  ''confidential"  circular  sent  in  1862  by  Arch-Dernon- 
Hazzard,  a  London  banker,  to  the  American  bankers,  is  a 
clear  cut  definition  of  BONDS— read  it  slowly  and  ponder 
over  it: 

"Slavery  is  likely  to  be  abolished  by  the  war  power,  and 
chattel  slavery  destroyed.  This  I  and  my  European  friends 
are  in  favor  of,  for  slavery  is  but  the  owning  of  labor,  and 
carries  with  it  the  care  of  the  laborer,  while  the  European 
plan,  led  on  by  England,  is  capital  control  of  labor,  by  con- 
trolling wages.     This  can  be  done  by  controlling  the  money. 

The  great  debt  that  capitalists  will  see  to  if  is  made  out 
of  the  war,  must  be  used  as  a  measure  to  control  the  money. 

To  accomplish  this  the  bonds  must  be  used  as  a  banking 
basis.  We  are  now  waiting  to  get  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  to  make  his  recommendation  to  Congress.     It  will 

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not  do  to  allow  the  greenback,  as  it  is  called,  to  circulate 
as  money  any  length  of  time,  for  we  cannot  control  that." 

Note  this  contrast.  Daniel  de  Lisle,  many  years  ago  was 
Mayor  of  Guernsey,  an  island  in  the  English  Channel;  the 
leading  tradesmen  showed  him  the  need  of  a  new  market 
house  and  asked  him  to  borrow  the  necessary  money  from 
England  or  France.  Daniel  de  Lisle,  being  intelligent  and 
honest,  said  he  would  not  BOND  them  to  anyone,  the  depu- 
tation urged  the  need  of  the  market  house.  I  agree  with 
you  on  that  point,  replied  the  mayor,  will  you  have  to  send 
to  England  or  France  for  any  material  or  workmen?  He  was 
assured  that  everything  to  complete  the  building  was  on 
the  island  except  the  money;  very  well,  said  de  Lisle,  that  is 
very  simple,  we  will  make  the  money,  what  amount  will  be 
required,  the  estimate  was  produced  and  the  mayor  issued 
Market  SCRIP  to  the  amount,  full  legal  tender  for  all  pur- 
poses; material  and  labor  were  paid  for  with  this  SCRIP. 
In  due  course  all  the  SCRIP  came  back  to  the  Town  Treas- 
ury as  rent  for  the  market  house.  A  general  holiday  was 
then  observed  and  amid  great  rejoicings  the  mayor  dropped 
the  SCRIP  into  a  bowl  of  blazing  liquid,  saying,  "Well  done! 
good  and  faithful  servants!  The  market  house  is  as  good  as 
if  built  with  gold." 

San  Mateo  is  a  good  near-by  illustration  of  BONDAGE. 
Forty  years  ago  they  issued  BONDS  for  $60,000,  on  which 
they  had  paid  $200,000,  when  the  bondholders  in  1913  relin- 
quished the  BONDS  for  a  final  payment  of  $3,000— $203,000 
for  the  use  of  $60,000. 

The  SCRIP  plan  would  have  put  $30,000  into  workers' 
pockets  and  saved  San  Mateo  $113,000  taxes,  which  went 
into  capitalists'  pockets. 

The  Mayor  and  Supervisors  intend  putting  us  to  the  ex- 
pense of  an  election  to  vote  ourselves  into  still  further 
BONDAGE,  to  the  extent  of  $34,500,000  with  which  to  buy 
the  old  water  supply  of  the  Spring  Valley  Water  Company 
with  its  delapidated  mains. 

It  is  estimated  by  an  eminent  engineer  that  150,000,000^ 
gallons  of  water  from  the  Sierras  can  be  delivered  daily  to 
the  inhabitants  of  San  Francisco  at  a  cost  of  $30,000,000. 
This  is  no  guess,  he  is  ready  to  undertake  the  contract. 

We  suggest  that  amount  be  raised  by  an  issue  of 
30,000,000  one  dollar  Water  Commutes,  receivable  for  all 
water  services  as  $1.50. 

The  city  administration  should  ask  bids  for  these  "Com- 
mutes" stating  that  all  orders  for  10  will  be  filled  before 
any  for  20;  all  for  20  before  any  for  30  and  so  on,  thus  giving 
Tom,  Dick,   Harry,  Mrs.   Washlady,   Miss   Shopgirl,   etc.,  an 

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opportunity  of  annexing  50  per  cent  without  working  for  it, 
a  special  privilege  which  our  infamous  money  laws  now 
reserve  in  this  land  of  equal  opportunities — yes,  you  may 
smile — for  the  rich  only;  and  to  assist  workers  still  more  in 
this  "easy  money  game,"  orders  may  be  paid  in  four  install- 
ments. 

This  action  followed  with  Municipal  Light,  Heat  and 
Power — which  would  naturally  follow  the  owning  of  the 
water  plant — w^ould  raise  San  Francisco  to  the  level  of  Glas- 
gow, Scotland,  in  the  matter  of  civic   economics. 

The  citizens  of  Glasgow  pay  no  city  tax;  public  utilities 
provide  the  whole  cost  of   the   Municipal   government. 

Bonds  are  bought  by  those  whose  necessities  are  more 
than  fully  supplied,  therefore  their  large  profits  have  to  be 
re-invested  and  every  investment  means  more  usury,  that 
means  more  of  the  workers'  sweat,  blood,  lives;  that  is  what 
capitalists  live  on — they  are  epicures. 

We  will  call  the  "Scrip"  Commutes,  no  law  can  prevent 
the  sale  of  commutes. 

If  we  are  BONDED  for  $34,500,000  the  BONDHOLDERS 
will  squeeze  $70,000,000  or  $80,000,000  out  of  our  sweat-blood- 
lives   before   they  remove   their  claws   from   our  throats. 

FARMERS  VERSUS  BANKERS 

Farmers  are  necessary  for  life. 
Bankers  cause  bankruptcies  and  poverty. 
About  20,000,000  are  engaged  in  agriculture. 
There  are  7,307  national  banks. 
Money  distributes   the  farmers'   products. 
Money  to  business  is  as  blood  to  the  body. 
Government   does   not   help   farmers   with   a  cent. 
Government  gives  bankers  all  the  money  they  demand. 
Farmers  pay  bankers  8^  per  cent  for  use  of  money. 
Bankers  pay   government  2  per  cent  for  "fiat"  money. 
If   farmers'    securities   are    good   for    Shylocks,    are   they 
not  good  enough  for  a  Democratic  government? 

Why  BONDS  pay,  and  who  pay  BONDS  are  illustrated 
thus:  "Good  morning,  Mr.  Roose,  this  is  Mr.  Rocky  of 
Graft  Court,  I'll  take  fifty  million  Panama  bonds  at  2  per 
cent,  no  need  to  waste  time  counting  the  money  twice,  its  in 
my  bank  and  of  course  you  would  return  it  there,  so  that's 
settled,  and  you  will  send  me  the  $50,000,000  national  bank 
notes  as  soon  as  possible  please,  don't  let  it  be  long,  be- 
cause I  can  get  10  per  cent  on  that  at  once. 

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Rocky  retires  saying,  sotto  voce,  "My  God— Gold! — 
not  a  bad  five  minutes — 12  per  cent  on  $50,000,000  for  30 
years  sure,  without  handing  over  a  cent.  Praise  Him  from 
whom  all  blessings  flow!  Why,  its  $6,000,000  a  year  for  30 
years  without  turning  a  hair— $180,000,000  gold!  and  I've 
more  than  any  other  man  now,  but  I'm  crazy  for  more,  I 
mean  to  own  all  those  gold  pavements  when  I  get  there. 
Holy,  Holy,  Holy,  Lord  John  Almighty.  NOW  LABOR, 
SWEAT  AND  PAY  ME. 


We  comment  on  the  following  head-lines  of  the  "Monarch 
of  the    Dailies,"  4   February,   1015: 

"WILSON  ASKS  BUSINESS'  AID  IN  LAW  MAKING." 

The  Workers  Homes  Bill  is  the  best  suggestion  ever 
made  in  any  country  at  any  time  for  "business." 

''Industrial    Leaders    Should    Co-Operate    With    Government 
to  Frame  Statutes,  He  Declares." 

The  Workers  Homes  Bill  would  start  all  industries 
booming;  say  the  land  cost  $100,000,000,  the  $400,000,000 
would   provide   800,000  men    work   for    100  days   each   at  $5. 

"MUST  POOL  INTERESTS." 

That  is  impossible  under  our  present  "system"  of  finance 
which  compels  everyone — ^even  if  they  only  eat — to  con- 
tribute to  the  bankers'  "POOL."  97  per  cent  of  those  who 
enter  commercial  business  on  their  own  account  FAIL; 
97  per  cent  of  all  business  is  done  on  3  per  cent  GOLD; 
USURY  has  to  be  paid  on  100  per  cent  GOLD,  or  FAIL,  so 
97  per  cent  are  whirled  into  the  bankers'  "POOL."  The 
Workers  Homes  Bill  will  enable  the  workers  to  "pool  their 
interests."  NO  NATION  CAN  EXIST  WITHOUT  THE 
WORKERS. 

"President    Urges  -Farmers    to    Grow    More    Grain    to    Meet 
Food  Shortage  in  Near  Future." 

Farmers  are  now  paying  the  bankers  more  USURY 
annually  than  the  value  of  the  entire  wheat  crop  of  the  whole 
country;  the  wheat  is  grown  for  the  bankers.  The  Workers 
Homes  Bill  is  the  initial  step  for  lifting  every  farm  mortgage. 


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WORKERS  UNITE 

DON*T  BE  FOOLED  ANY  LONGER 

BY 

GOVERNMENT— LABOR  LEADERS— SOCIALISTS 

The  Industrial  Commission  ap-pointed  by  Congress  "to 
discover  the  underlying  causes  of  dissatisfaction  in  the  in- 
dustrial situation"  has  just  issued  the  first  annual  report. 
This  junketing  trip  is  to  last  three  years,  they  can  visit  any 
part  of  the  United  States  their  desires  for  pleasure  suggests; 
cost  is  practically  unlimited,  it  may  easily  reach  $500,000 — 
which-  will,  to  the  uttermost  cent,  come  out  of  the  workers' 
pockets.  The  most  heinous  feature  of  the  commission  is  that 
is  was  appointed  for  the  sole  purpose  of  misleading  the  work- 
ing class  into  the  belief  that  the  government  is  interested  in 
bettering  the  conditions  of  those  who  produce  all  the  wealth 
of  the  nation. 

The  commission  was  intended  as  a  fiasco,  they  were  not 
expected  or  intended  to  find  the  cause  of  dissatisfaction 
among  the  workers;  they  therefore  conducted  the  ''hearings" 
on  star-chamber  principles  and  subpaened  only  those  whose 
opinions  they  wished  to  make  public,  knowing  full  well  that 
the  "cause"  would  not  be  mentioned  by  their  selected  wit- 
nesses; not  one  woman — the  most  important  factor  in  all 
production — was  called  before  them  to  show  the  cause  of  the 
prevailing  general  dissatisfaction — they  were  afraid  of  the 
truth. 

One  man  tried  all  available  means  to  obtain  a  hearing, 
he  asked  the  commissioners  who  receive  ten  dollars  a  day 
and  all  expenses  if  they  would  kindly  sit  one  morning  at  9 
o'clock  and  hear  him  till  10  o'clock — ^their  usual  hour  to 
begin  the  hypocritical  work — he  promised  to  expose  the  sole 
cause  and  give  the  remedy  and  thus  save  them  the  trouble  of 
further  investigations,  they  refused,  the  man  persisted,  Chair- 
mon  Walsh  then  called  the  sergeant-at-arms  and  a  policeman 
to  eject  the  truth  from  the  Star  Chamber.  Walsh  left  the 
following  lie  which  appeared  in  the  daily  press  the  day  after 
he  had  left  the  city:  "We  have  heard  from  all  persons  who 
wished  to  appear,"  Chairman  Walsh. 

Their  preliminary  report  gives  24  causes  of  unrest  and 
suggests  14  more  subjects  for  future  hearings — in  none  of 
the  38  is  there  the  slightest  hint  at  the  cause — >the  money 
question — these  commissioners  are  taking  about  $15.00  each 
per  day  out  of  the  workers'  pockets  as  payment  for  their 
cleverness  in  hiding  the  truth  about  the  most  important  sub- 

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ject  before  the  world — that  which  indeed  brought  about  the 
European  holocaust. 

The  Industrial  Commission  have  come  to  the  conclusion 
that  the  unrest  among  the  workers  is  because  "Labor  is  not 
marketed  right,"  the  remedy  they  suggest  is  to  establish 
Labor  exchanges  all  over  the  country  where  Labor  can  be 
bought  and  sold  like  pigs,  pig-iron  or  potatoes. 

No  man  is  fit  for  Congress,  or  for  the  Industrial  Com- 
mission, unless  he  knows  there  is  only  one  cause — not 
''causes" — of  dissatisfaction  in  the  industrial  situation;"  and 
that  is  the  gold  standard  of  all.  values,  which  was  forced  on 
this  Nation  by  the  English  bankers,  for  the  express  purpose 
of  robbing  the  toilers  of  eight-tenths  of  their  products,  they 
know.  First.  The  Constitution  says:  "The  Congress  shall 
have  power  to  coin  money,  regulate  the  value  thereof,  and 
of  foreign  coin,  and  fix  the  standard  of  weights  and 
measures." 

If  a  baker,  the  father  of  a  very  large  family  passed  all 
his  loaves  to  an  alien  agent,  at  a  shade  above  the  actual 
cost,  for  him  to  sell  at  any  standard  price  his  greed  might 
dictate,  the  baker  and  his  family  having  to  pay  the  agent's 
advanced  price  for  bread  with  which  to  sustain  life,  the 
children,  grand-children,  great-grand-children  would  summar- 
ily consign  the  baker  to  a  prison  or  a  lunatic  asylum  and 
take  charge  of  the  bakery  themselves  for  their  sole  benefit. 

The  baker  analogy  is  exactly  parallel  with  our  govern- 
ment issue  of  the  national  money;  the  government  coins 
the  money,  the  "fiat"  of  the  people  make  it  money;  then  the 
government  hands  it  to  a  few  bankers  at  a  shade  above  cost 
for  them  to  "regulate  the  value  thereof"  at  which  the  people 
may  be  allowed  to  use  the  money  of  their  own   creation. 

Bankers  are  aliens,  bankers  know  no  nationality,  gold 
is  their  God,  deposits  their  Religion,  they  are  minus  soul 
or  conscience,  their  gizzard-greed  is  the  only  organ  which 
influences  their  lives.  This  Nation  is  greatly  indebted  to 
Franklin  who  through  greatest  difificulties  succeeded  in  keep- 
ing metal  money  out  of  the  Constitution — except  as  a  sop, 
the  States  are  allowed  to  use  gold  and  silver  as  money,  but 
the  metal  money  issued  by  the  State  is  legal-tender  only 
in  the  State  of  issue.  Franklin  summed  up  gold  as  "the 
most  useless  of  all  metals  fit  only  for  plugging  teeth  and 
ornamenting  fools."  We  have  so  degenerated  that  we  allow 
GOLD  to  govern  us. 

Second:  The  Thirteenth  Amendment  1865,  Article  VIIT, 
Section  L  Neither  Slavery  nor  involuntary  servitude,  ex- 
cept as  a  punishment  for  crime,  whereof  the  party  shall  have 

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been  duly  convicted,  shall  exist  within  the  United  States, 
or  any  place  subject  to  their  jurisdiction. 

Section  2.  Congress  shall  have  power  to  enforce  this 
article  by  appropriate   legislation. 

Every  Bond  issued  by  the  Federal,  State,  county  govern- 
ments, railroads,  corporations,  universities,  all  bonds,  are 
contrary  to  the  Constitution  because  they  inflict  "involuntary 
servitude"  on  all  who  have  to  pay  nolens  volens  the  interest. 
This  is  a  most  serious  matter;  in  California  $5,800,000  fresh 
bonds  have  just  been  passed,  $1,800,000  of  that  is  to  its  ever- 
lasting disgrace  for  the  University  of  California,  proving 
its  mathematical  and  economic  ignorance;  on  that  $5,800,000 
bonds  $13,000,000  will  be  the  "involuntary  servitude"  in  50 
years  at  4>^  per  cent— $18,800,000  for  the  use  of  $5,800,000. 

In  1910  State   Bonds   were $28,539,795 

In  1913   State   Bonds   were $100,387,559 

In  1907   County   Bonds   were $    6,555,660 

In  1914   County   Bonds   were $  57,353,545 

With  the  addition  of  Railroad,  Corporation  and  City 
Bonds,  California  is  probably  paying  over  $15,000,000  annual 
bond  interest,  children  are  thus  born  into  "involuntary  servi- 
tude."    . 

Our  forefathers  knew  "Banks  are  more  dangerous  to  the 
liberties  of  the  people  than  standing  armies,"  and  acted 
accordingly  to  that  knowledge. 

Third:  On  23  December,  1793,  they  enacted  that  "Any 
person  holding  any  office  or  stock  in  any  institution  in  the 
nature  of  a  bank  for  issuing  or  discounting  bills  or  notes 
payable  to  bearer  or  order  cannot  be  a  member  of  the  House 
while  he  owns  such  ofifice  or  stock." 

That  resolution  was  signed  by  President  George  Wash- 
ington. Three-fourths  of  the  seats  in  Congress  are  thus 
illegally  held  by  bankers,  bank  officials,  and  stock  holders 
— traitors  to  the  Commonwealth.  The  acts  of  Congress  have 
all,  for  generations,  been  unconstitutional.  This  is  a  genera- 
tion  of  spineless  slaves  to  bankers. 

What  LABOR  LEADERS  have  accomplished  for  themselves 
is  too  obvious  to  need  comment.  Statistics  from  1850  prove 
most  emphatically  what  they  have  done  to  the  workers; 
the  third  column  in  the  following  table  "Product  over 
wages"  in  plain  language  is,  robbery  of  workers  through  th« 
gold  standard,  which  the  Labor  Leaders  still  uphold. 

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Product 
Wages     Product     over  wages 

1950   - $247         $  812         $   565 

1860    288  1,438  1,150 

1870 , 302  1,648  1,346 

1880    346  1,965  1,619 

1890 444  2,204  1,760 

1900    437  2,450  2,013 

1910    518  3,124  2,606 

calculate  what  the  figures  will  be  in  1920  if  the  gold  standard 
is  still  allowed  to  govern  us.  Recently  the  government  has 
created  $500,000,000  Aldrich-Vreeland  currency,  and  $1,000,- 
000,000  Federal  Reserve  Bank  currency  which  is  given  to  a 
few  bankers  at  2  per  cent  by  our  Traitorous  government 
instructing  the  reserve  banks  to  exact  6  per  cent — 200  per 
cent  for  themselves  from  the  associated  banks,  and  the  asso- 
ciated banks  exact  as  much  as  they  can  from  the  users  of 
the  "Fiat"  money;  at  only  8  per  cent  means  $120,000,000 
every  year,  all  provided  by  the  workers*  sweat,  blood  and 
lives. 

As  soon  as  the  federal  banks  are  in  full  work  they  will 
be  loaning  $20,000,000,000— twenty  billions— on  the  backing 
of  the  $1,500,000,000  of  unconstitutional  money,  and  the 
people  using  it,  using  the  money  of  their  own  creation  will 
be  paying  the  bankers  $400,000,000  for  its  use  annually! 

The  SOCIALISTS  have  deceived  the  workers  for  genera- 
tions saying  they  would  capture  the  government  and  make  con- 
ditions lovely  by  means  of  the  ballot;  voting  is  the  capitalist 
game,  they  have  the  four  aces  up  their  sleeves — army,  navy, 
police,  supreme  court — the  money  trust  is  the  government, 
that  should  be  the  sole  object  of  attack.  Socialists  have 
fooled  us  by  assuring  us  that  they  would  prevent  European 
war,  whereas  the  most  atrocious  war  of  all  the  ages  began 
in  the  stronghold  of  Socialism,  it  is  the  mathematical  cul- 
mination of  centuries  of  rule  by  gold,  church  and  Devil — 
greed:  It  is  now  costing  the  workers  $70,000,000  a  day  to 
maintain  and  assist  10,000,000  brothers  in  murdering  each 
other,  whereas  if  Socialists  had  devoted  their  energies  to 
destroying  the  money  power,  those  10,000,000  brothers 
would  today  be  producing  $100,000,000  worth  of  wealth 
daily  for  themselves. 

The  finale  of  the  European  war  will  be  the  repudiation 
of  all  debts,  they  are  all  bankrupt,  demonetization  of  gold, 
the  brotherhood  of  man,  recognized  and  lived.  The  millen- 
ium  is  no  myth,  or  it  could  not  have  maintained  its  hold  on 

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the  human  mind,  an  idea  has  been  the  embryo  of  every 
accomplished  fact,  the  indescribeable  horrors  of  tlie  European 
bloodshed  will  thus  result  in  the  millenium. 

With  such  men  as  Edison,  Burbank  and  thousands  of 
others  in  all  departments  of  industry,  we  can  inaugurate 
the  millenium  here,  before  the  European  conflict  is  over, 
if  we  will  demonetize  gold. 

The  Socialist  theory  is  good,  their  tactics  to  obtain  such 
conditions  are  contrary  to  reason.  The  Workers  Homes 
Bill  should  commend  itself  to  every  honest,  reasoning 
person,  because. 

1.  It  is  so  simple  that  every  worker  can  understand  and 
unite  to  carry  it  out. 

2.  It  is  independent  of  parties;  therefore,  free  from  the 
political   inferno. 

3.  It  can  be  carried  through  immediately  by  the  present 
administration.  It  matters  not  what  tag.  Congressmen,  Sena- 
tors, President,  Supreme  Court  Judges  wear;  no  need  to  wait 
ten,  twenty  or  forty  years  for  all  to  be  tagged  Socialist. 

4.  It  saves  the  waste  of  time  and  money  spent  over 
elections,  because  it  matters  not  one  iota  who  is  elected — 
one  worry  less. 

5.  It  will  prove  that  Industrialism — United  Labor — has 
the  power  to  obtain  everything  on  which  they  agree;  it 
is  simple  justice — equal  rights — for  workingmen  and  banker- 
men. 

6.  It  is  the  purest  strain  of  Socialism,  and  will  eventually 
abolish  USURY  in  all  its  forms  of  rent,  interest,  profit. 

7.  It  will  prove  Labor  to  be  more  powerful  than  gold, 
although  the  bankers — the  real  government  of  this  country 
— have  given  to  gold  the  unnatural  and  fictitious  power  of 
usury. 

8.  It  is  the  only  plan  yet  suggested  that  will  allay  the 
general  discontent,  and  thus  avert  the  impending,  expected 
revolution. 

9.  It  is  a  clear-cut  "casus  belli" — People's  money  versus 
Bankers'  money.  Money  that  will  only  exchange  services, 
not  the  money  w^hich  steals  the. services  of  the  workers. 

About   100,000,000   PEOPLE 

against 

10  Financial  Octopi. 

10.  The  plan  of  campaign — this  is  ready — proves  victory 
certain,  and  provides  against  any  suffering  from  want  in 
the  fight  which  will  be  carried  out  in  the  open. 

11.  It  will  place  the  power  of  control  in  the  hands  of 
those  who  produce. 

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A.  Workers  produce  ail  we^alth,'  'but  have  no  voice  in  its 
distribution. 

B.  Workers  are  the  only  class  necessary  for  any  nation, 
but    have    not    the    slightest    influence    in    making    the    laws. 

C.  Scheming  shirkers  have  given  an  unnatural,  fictitious 
power  to  gold  which  enables  them  to  steal  all  the  products 
of  the  workers — barring  enough  to  keep  them  workable — 
to  produce  more  wealth. 

12.  That  is  the  A  B  C  of  the  proposition.  Those  lazy, 
indifferent  people  who  meet  every  good  suggestion  with  "Let- 
the-other-fellow-do-it,"  are  positive  obstructions  in  the  road 
of  human  progress. 

Wake  up,  think,  talk,  act,  accomplish,  do  all  you  can  to 
INCORPORATE  ALL  WORKERS  in  this  city  into  ONE 
UNITED  WORKERS'  UNION  with  honest,  fearless  men 
for  its  officers. 

Every  other  center  of  industry  will  then  do  likewise,  and 
will  send  one  delegate  each  to 

THE  WORKERS'  PARLIAMENT 
which  will  be  established  in  Washington,  D.   C,  whose  duty 
it  will  be  to  instruct  Congress  as  to  the 

LEGISLATION  DEMANDED 

This  Union  will  not  interfere  in  the  slightest  degree  with 
any  trade  regulations,  it  is  solely  to  bring  about  United 
Action  to   force  the  passage   of   the  Workers   Homes   Bill. 

This  year  we  shall  be  crowded  with  all  nationalities  and 
without  doubt  this  Union  will  include  the  Workers  of  the 
World,  the  world  will  then  be  ours  and  reckoned  in  our 
present  terms  of  value,  the  daily  income  of  each  member 
will  be  ten  dollars. 

WORKERS:      Government    will    not    give    you    a   crumb. 
You  have  the  power  to  take  the  whole  loaf. 
AVILL  YOU? 

We  must  have  an  office  on  Market  Street,  on  the  ground 
floor,  between  3rd  Street  and  the  Ferries,  fees  will  be  optional 
from  ten  cents  to  a  dollar  a  month;  the  dime  members  will 
have  all  the  advantages  of  the  dollar  members,  another 
striking  feature  will  be  that  the  pay  of  the  president  will 
be  the  same  as  the  janitor — that  will  insure  a  good  man 
for  the  presidency. 

Send   in   your   names   and   addresses   to: 

J.  A.  Kinghorn-Jones,  516  Mission  St.,  San  Francisco. 

Poor  Richards  Almanac  for  1756  ridicules  the  "inflation" 
bogie.  "If  paper  money  in  ever  so  great  a  quantity  could 
be  made,  no  man  could  get  it  without  giving  something  for 
it." 

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HENRY  WARFIELD 
Candidate  for  President  of  the  United  States 

MY  PLATFORM 

The  United  States  is  one  great  Co-operative^  Common- 
wealth, the  benefits  of  which  are  unequally  distributed;  the 
rich  are'  getting  richer  and  the  poor  are  getting  poorer, 
owing  to  a  fraudulent  system  of  finance. 
^„  If  elected,  I  will  at  once  inaugurate  a  system  of  finance, 
under  which  every  producer  will  get  the  full  value  of  his 
or  her  Labor. 

I  will  cause  to  be  issued  $2,000,000,000  (two  billion)  of 
fj^U  legal,  tender  paper  money  and  declare  a  cash  dividend 
tb.,evei}y  stockholder  (voter)  who  votes  for  me  for  the  above 
office,  to  the  amount  of  $100.00  (One  Hundred  Dollars). 

Don't  give  your  vote   away  for  nothing. 

YOURS  FOR  REAL  PROSPERITY, 

HENRY   WARFIELD. 


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^'O'n  CftoJ^!"^'''    T'Mef,  JJhrea  Robbers  Enter  Bar, 


Bellevu9y"'^'^>'^  the  Hotel 


Rifle 


Cash  Register  and  Then  Take 
bartender's  Cash  and  Diamond 


$4,000,000 
Morgan  Vases 
Are  Sold 

Priceless   Collection    of   Porce- 
lains Is 


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In   1913  Congtess  Appropriated 

$415,366,788 

mWAR 

Army  -        -    $  94,266,145.51 

Navy         .  140,800,642.53 

War  Pensions   -      180,300,000.00 

That  is  about  the  ANNUAL  cost  of  War  when 

we  are  at  peace  with  the  whole  world 

except  United  States  Labor. 

Every  cent  is  diverted  from  workers'  pockets. 


We  demand  ONE  ISSUE  of 

$500,000,000 

Government  Legal  Tender 
direct  to  the  users. 

m  HOMES 


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THIS  IS  A  CLEAR  CUT 

CASUS  BELLI 

PEOPLE'S  MONEY 

VERSUS 

BANKER'S  MONEY 


99,950,000  People 

AGAINST 

50,000  Bankers 

Ttl[  PEOPLE  MUST  WIN! 

Do  YOUR  Part!! 

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"TO  STIMULATE  THOUGHT 

i«f  "VERDICT"  WAU! 

IS  OFFERED  FOR  SALE 

Colors,  Tan  and  Mouse 

Sizes,  10  X  4  and  7i  x  4 

Prices,  $1.00  and  75c 


THE    FOLLOWING    FACT    IS    STAMPED 
INTO  THE  LEATHER 

NOW,   after     1914,   Years   of 

CHRISTIANITY 
LIFE  is  one  ETERNAL 

GRIND  for  the  INFERNAL 


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J.  A.  KINGHORN- JONES,  516  Mission  Street,  San  Francisco 


GAYLORD    BROS. 

MAKERS 

SYRACUSE,  -  N.Y. 

PAT.  JAN.  Z1,  13QB 


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